Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:14:02 +0200 From: "Vitaly D" <katsuo_harada_evil_does@hotmail.com> To: mhunter@ack.berkeley.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: "Session Menu" xdm/gdm problem Message-ID: <BAY105-F7B220548CAA7445D04E6893950@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <20060605214709.GC32248@malcolm.berkeley.edu>
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>From: Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.berkeley.edu> >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: "Session Menu" xdm/gdm problem Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 14:47:09 >-0700 > >Hey everybody, > >I'm having a frustrating X problem. I installed X via portupgrade and >hacked /etc/ttys to enable xdm. I can log in successfully both as root >and as a non-priv user, but either way I get to a screen that says: > >Session Menu > >Load Session # Delete Session # Break Lock # Default/Fail Safe # Cancel > >But if I disable xdm and simply use startx, it launches X and my window >manager fine. I tried deleting my .xinitrc but that didn't help. > >I have a feeling some X component isn't in place. I tried compiling gdm >as a replacement but that didn't help (same symptoms). I was able to run >gdmsetup (or was it gdmconfig?) by logging into gdm in fail-safe mode, and >I could change some of the GDM settings, but I didn't see anything that I >could twist to fix the problem. > >FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE May 12 >xorg-6.9.0 You should place .xinitrc in your home directory. simply copy /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to ~/.xinitrc that should work _________________________________________________________________ Retrouvez tout en un clin d'oeil avec la barre d'outil MSN Search ! http://desktop.msn.fr/
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