Re: Using xdm and twm on freebsd 6.2
"John L. Utz III" <[email protected]>
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On Apr 5, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Jim Seymour wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 10:39 -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: >> As I think you know, starting X via xinit uses ~/.xinitrc, while >> using >> xdm uses ~/.xsession. >> >> The latter need sto be executable. >> >> What's in it? >> >> (I use xdm & various window managers -- usually piewm, which is >> derived >> from tvtwm, which resembles twm quite a bit. I can send you my >> ~/.xsession if youi like, but it's not especially likely to be all >> that >> close to what you will want.) > > After creating yet another .xsession file I get the following: > > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). > FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" refcount is 2, > should > be 1; fixinng. > AUDIT: Thu Apr 5 20:40:04 2007: 726 X: client 2 rejected from local > host > > In my .xsession (mode 700): > > #! /bin/sh > twm & > > When I boot it loads xdm. When I try to log in, the screen goes blank > and then comes back to the login screen. Ideas.... that return to the main screen means that it's failing - have u looked in /var/log/messages? have you looked to see if xdm has a verbose flag that u can use if u started in from the command line? > > Thanks, > -- > Jim Seymour <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"