Does gdm start and present a login window? What does it do when you attempt to log in? Have you tried each of the various sessions it gives you?
One of them usually starts X in some very conservative way, like with twm or something. That should be a good place to start. The Xsession option should at least fall through to X running xterm with no window manager. If not, it's really easy to experiment with sessions. Just add files to /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/ that do what you want. For instance, you could have /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/minimal: #!/bin/sh # minimal exec xterm -geometry 80x24-0-0 EOF Or, /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/stupid: #!/bin/sh # stupid exec xclock EOF Or, /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/just_run_gnome_session #!/bin/sh # Skip all the fancy stuff and just launch Gnome! exec /usr/bin/gnome-session --purge-delay=15000 You get the idea. Make sure they are chmod 755'ed, or they won't show up in the list. kdm does the same kind of thing, but the sessions are all defined in one long file. Russell > also sprach Russell Neches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.07.22.0449 +0200]: > > elsewhere. I've tweaked kdm and gdm to fix exactly this problem, so I > > would imagine that xdm works similarly (since gdm and kdm are > > derivative of xdm). > > i couldn't get gdm to work, kdm seems to work. care to share your > configuration with me? > > -- > martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) > \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > three things are certain: > death, taxes and lost data. > guess which has occurred. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
