On 2011-03-08 14:48:12 -0500, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote: > hi I wrote www.sourceforge.net/projects/xdm-options/ > > one reason I've used xdm for so long is that having my environment in xterm > was more important to me than how X got started > > I think the C-coded display managers out there don't bother with > /etc/profile or ~/.profile like a login should - but I don't know. > > by the way XAUTHORITY may not be an export when you think it is - and maybe > it shouldn't be (reasons omitted)
FYI, gdm3 is different from gdm or xdm. It defines its own $XAUTHORITY, so that if the value is lost (like it is with xterm + the buggy libxt), then one can no longer start X applications. One cannot even guess what the $XAUTHORITY value was, since the directory is not readable. > you can use xauth it is simple to use It is not possible to use it, as xauth needs to know the location of the X authority file, which is precisely the information that has been lost. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110308223014.gj...@prunille.vinc17.org
