Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 09:56:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> Cc: "Don O'Neil" <don@whtech.com>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: KDE & XDM (auto start of KDE) Message-ID: <199809121456.JAA05053@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <199809121439.JAA27982@detlev.UUCP> References: <000001bdde1e$f5363ec0$0200010a@digerati.whtech.com> <199809121439.JAA27982@detlev.UUCP>
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>> However, as soon as I change the window manager in the Xsession file >> to be KDE (startkde, kwm, ANYTHING with KDE) XDM doesn't launch it, >> rather it goes back to the login screen. There isn't anything I can >> do to get it out of this nasty loop, exept to log in, comment out >> the ttys entry and reboot. > Look at ~/.xsession-errors to see why KDE isn't launching. I would > suspect that /usr/local/bin is not in xdm's path. And the workaround (sorry I forgot to mention this) is to explicitly specify the the path to kwm (ie, /usr/local/bin/kwm) in the script you're using. Please send followups to -questions, where this thread should have started. Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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