On 29.04.2019 18:05, Timothy Sample wrote:
Hi again,
Timothy Sample <samp...@ngyro.com> writes:
Hi Brett,
Brett Gilio <bre...@posteo.net> writes:
Hey all
I just reconfigured my system configuration after the big staging
merge
to master. I use StumpWM.
GDM seems to be starting just fine, but after this reconfiguration
stumpwm or X or something is crashing for me and looping me back to
GDM.
Where are the logs I can view for this? I see some message appear but
quickly disappear before looping back into GDM.
GDM logs things to “/var/log/messages”. However, it may not be useful
in this case (do take a look, though).
If I can get the logs I can share them or try and figure it out
myself.
You could also share some other details about your config. For
instance, how is StumpWM started? Do you have a “~/.xsession” script
or
does StumpWM provide a “.desktop” file that GDM needs to find?
After doing some testing in a VM, it looks like this is an issue with
my
recent commit: 8caa458953eeac783c73a0e5aaa72842fe3914c9.
I added a placeholder desktop entry file, and even though I did my best
to make it invisible, GDM is still selecting it. (I tested GNOME and
XFCE, but I guess they were preferred by GDM over the placeholder,
whereas StumpWM is not. Maybe the has to do with how the names are
sorted.) I will try and fix this today, but in the mean time, you can
either:
• go back to using SLiM for now;
• launch StumpWM from “~/.xsession”; or
• install another WM, so that you can select StumpWM explicitly
when
logging in (using the little gear icon that shows up when you
have
multiple sessions available).
Sorry!
-- Tim
Thank you for looking into this Tim! I have gone back to SLiM for the
time being until it is fixed :).
If anybody else is having this issue, going back to SLiM is really easy,
check out my commit for reference.
https://github.com/brettgilio/guix-system/commit/64d389db13c2f78ee5c58af28c1639b098113c93
