Current Rawhide just a bit too raw
David Mack
dmack at juniper.net
Tue Jan 22 15:45:59 UTC 2008
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of
> Jonathan Kamens
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 7:33 AM
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> Subject: Re: Current Rawhide just a bit too raw
>
> On 01/22/2008 10:09 AM, David Mack wrote:
> > In /etc/sysconfig/desktop, change DISPLAYMANAGER:
> >
> > export DISPLAYMANAGER=XDM
> >
> > You don't need gdm to run Gnome.
> >
> Did that. Ran "telinit 3" and then "telinit 5" to reset
> things, which
> cause XDM to come up as expected. Typed my username and
> password. It
> ran my old .xsession file from before I started using GNOME. Deleted
> the old .xsession file and logged out and typed my username
> and password
> again. Now the login window flashes as if it's trying to log
> me in and
> then comes back. Something's obviously failing, but
> ~/.xsession-errors
> is empty. So whatever XDM is trying to do to figure out what
> it should
> run when I log in, apparently isn't working. Had to switch
> back to GDM
> to be able to log in.
My .xsession looks like this:
1> more .xsession
#! /bin/bash
if [ -e $HOME/.xsession-$HOSTNAME ]; then
exec $HOME/.xsession-$HOSTNAME
else
gnome-session
fi
(I run different window managers on different boxes, hence the
.xsession-$HOSTNAME stuff).
Dave
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