On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 04:46:38AM -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 02:31:26AM -0700,
> kmself@ix.netcom.com <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > What was your problem?
>
> For some reason, gdm wouldn't run. It would load X, and then die,
> and it would do this 5 or 6 times, and finally give up. XDM works
> fine, but i'd like to be able to use GDM, because of it's muliple
> session capabilities (not to mention it's much prettier :).
Similar but not quite what I'd experienced. In my case, GDM would fire
up, and I'd have zero, zip, zilch keyboard response for a locally
managed session.
It appears that this is an old, resolved, bug, and can be fixed by
modifying your gdm.conf file.
http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=47451&archive=yes
My preference is to use a console login -- more control, fewer levels of
indirection, better error recoverability, and more logging options.
startx (<client>) -- :<display> <options> 1><logfile> 2>&1 & exit
...will launch X with optional clients on a display of your choice, with
selected options (say, color depth), and log all output, then exit your
shell session.
I have installed wdm (the Wings display manager) as it goes somewhat
with my WindowMaker desktop, but use it only for remote sessions. You
can do this by commenting out any local session lines in
/etc/X11/<display manager>/Xservers, where <display manager> is xdm,
gdm, wdm, etc.
--
Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com)
What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/
