Jon Garate(e)k dio:
Landry Breuil(e)k dio:
On Feb 5, 2008 9:49 AM, Jon Garate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello people @ misc,
I've successfully built both the -stable base system and the X system
(xenocara) and I'm trying to setup GDM properly to combine with XFCE4.
Right now, XFCE4 works after issuing startx command (I've configure
.xinitrc properly apparently).
with /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 i suppose ?
I've done some research in the net and everywhere I could but I don't
seem to get it working through GDM login. Can anybody shed some
light in
setting up .xinitrc/.xsession or whatever files I need to get it
running
properly?
See http://wiki.xfce.org/faq#starting_xfce, section 'Setting up GDM'
Landry
Thanks, I already knew the startxfce4 method., which manually works.
I've also taken a look at xfce's wiki site and tried setting
Xfce.desktop in the folders mentioned, which didn't work.
I also tried including Xfce.desktop in /usr/local/share/xsessions/
(which is where gnome.desktop is located) and configured it with the
same permissions as gnome.desktop, still no success. I also tried
setting "exec startxfce4" in both .xinitrc and .xsession files with
proper permissions, guess what, no success. GDM keeps trying
gnome(fail), then gnome failsafe(fail) and then xterm failsafe.
Looks like some permissions of some file aren't correct but I just
can't figure out. I include my Xfce.desktop file in here, just if it
helps:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Xfce 4.4 Session
Comment=Xfce 4.4 Session
Exec=/usr/local/bin/startxfce4
Type=Application
Jon
Ok, I just found the solution. As stated in this archive post:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2007-11/0662.html
If you install gdm from the package system, by default makes the file
"Xsession" in /etc/X11/gdm non executable. After changing execute
permissions (chmod +x) all the standart procedures (setting up .desktop
files, etc...) worked just fine. Just wondering if the package system
guys can change this up? :-)
Jon
