Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 07:46:58 +0200 From: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: XDM cannot start desktop after Xorg upgrade Message-ID: <51B416D2.6020007@eskk.nu> In-Reply-To: <20130608172812.dadcbb68.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <51B30588.8060208@eskk.nu> <20130608172812.dadcbb68.freebsd@edvax.de>
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2013-06-08 17:28, Polytropon skrev: > On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:20:56 +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: >> >> I've been using XDM as login manager for years. Since the latest Xorg >> upgrade, XDM cannot start XFCE4 as it used to. > > Strange that this happens after an upgrade. What initalization > mechanism do you use for your X session? Do you use the "chained" > approach, i. e., ~/.xsession containing > > #!/bin/csh > source ~/.cshrc > exec ~/.xinitrc > > and all your session startup stuff in ~/xinitrc? (I'm using this > approach for many years with XDM successfully.) > > > >> Disabling XDM and starting X manually works. > > In this case, ~/.xinitrc will be processed. XDM does use ~/.xsession > instead (same content can be used). This seems to indicate that > the upgrade did not affect the programs called. > > > > > I've done like this lrwxr-xr-x 1 user user 9 31 Dec 17:53 .xinitrc@ -> .xsession These are the contents of .xsession # LANG=sv_SE.ISO8859-1; export LANG /usr/local/bin/startxfce4
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