From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 18 8:20: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C4314BEF for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 08:19:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA02965; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:19:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:19:46 -0500 (EST) From: Brett Taylor To: "Alain G. Fabry" Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm returns to xdm after login In-Reply-To: <004f01bf61c2$99c09cb0$5531d5c6@coserve.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Alain G. Fabry wrote: > My xdm returns to xdm after I log on, username and password are > correct. I have .xsession in my home directory starting a > windowsmanager (tried `exec startkde` and `startkde` without quotes > ofcourse) .xsession is executable. I can run startx successfully. What does .xsession-errors say? What does your .xsession look like? I initially would have said your .xsession wasn't executable, but you said it was. Hard to guess now wo/ some info from .xsession-errors. Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message