On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 09:28:37PM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: >Karsten M. Self declaimed: >> on Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 03:47:08PM -0500, George Georgalis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> > Something seems wrong with the archives at the moment... >> > >> > >> > I just finished walking remote hands through a not so simple x >> > configuration. whew. >> > >> > now a user can 'startx' and use the session, but with gdm the session >> > starts then immediately returns to the gdm login. > >> > >> > I presume there is a permissions problem here... how do I enable users >> > with console access (or users in a group) to access (run) the xserver? >> >> In /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config: >> >> allowed_users=console >> >> You should be able to manage this setting with: >> >> # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common >> >> man 5 Xwrapper.config for more information. >> >> Peace. > >I had a similar problem with an account on a RH Linux system. The >solution was to change the last line of my .xsession file from > >/usr/bin/blackbox # Works with gdm on my Debian/Sarge system > >to > >exec /usr/bin/blackbox # Works with gdm on RH 7/8 > >The Debian system's /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config file has the line described >by Karsten, the RH system doesn't have that file. Note that I don't know >_why_ my solution works...
Thanks, Karsten and Paul. My Xwrapper.config is okay. I'm going to try exec in .xsession, .xinit, etc files (it's a new account so I don't know why there would be stray files). When remote hands wants to work on it again. :) I made /tmp a symlink to /var/tmp, /var/tmp seems to have the right permissions. but that's the only other difference from my working system I can think of... // George -- GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 347-451-8229 Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Multimedia, DB, DNS and Metrics. http://www.galis.org/george -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
