Re: setting up gdm on freebsd

On 02.05.2006, 15:23 Uhr, Peter wrote:
> 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.

Ok, so /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/Sessions is what you're looking for. Place the
fluxbox file mentioned in the documentation there and it'll work.

>>> 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:

Sorry, I forgot: after "su -" enter the following line as root:

export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
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48. YEEEHA!!!  What a CRASH!!!

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