Re: setting up gdm on freebsd

--- Thomas Stein <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 02.05.2006, 12:37 Uhr, Peter wrote:
> > I'm running fluxbox 0.1.14 on FreeBSD 5.4 and I cannot get the GDM
> > display manager to work.  The fluxbox docs say to edit one of two
> > files:
> > 
> > /etc/gdm/Sessions/fluxbox
> > /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/fluxbox
> > 
> > But I do not have either /etc/gdm or /etc/X11/gdm directories on my
> box
> > (I installed gdm by port).
> 
> Is there something in the /usr/share/gdm directory? I'm using Debian
> Linux here and
> 
> $  ls -l /usr/share/gdm
> 
> shows the following:
> 
> total 144
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Apr 11 14:25 BuiltInSessions
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  11143 Mar 31  2005 gdmchooser.glade
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 121486 Mar 31  2005 gdmsetup.glade
> drwxr-xr-x  14 root root   4096 Apr 11 14:25 themes
> 
> If you have the BuiltInSessions directory under /usr/share/gdm and a
> file default.desktop in it, GDM is already using this directory.
> Maybe you
> can create a "Sessions" directory here and place the fluxbox
> file in it (or just put the fluxbox file into BuiltInSessions,
> perhaps this works too).

I do have this:

$ ls -l /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gdm/BuiltInSessions/
total 16
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  7642 May  2 11:00 default.desktop
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  7642 May  2 11:00 default.desktop.orig

and I found:

$ ls -l /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm
total 38
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 May  2 11:00 Init
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 May  2 11:00 PostLogin
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 May  2 11:00 PostSession
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 May  2 11:00 PreSession
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 May  1 21:32 Sessions
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  5536 May  2 11:00 XKeepsCrashing
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  6353 May  2 11:00 Xsession
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1860 May  2 11:10 custom.conf
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  1839 May  2 11:00 custom.conf.default
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  4059 May  2 11:00 locale.alias
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  4059 May  2 11:00 locale.alias.orig
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 May  2 11:00 modules

Where custom.conf is what gdmsetup modifies.

> > Also, I tried to run gdmsetup as root but I get errors:
> > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > Xlib: No protocol specified
> > (gdmsetup:827): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> 
> The easiest way would be via xhost:
> 
> user@host$ xhost +localhost
> localhost being added to access control list
> user@host$ su -
> Password:
> root@host$ gdmsetup

Nope, but the error now becomes simply:

(gdmsetup:1292): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

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