[95982] in RedHat Linux List
Re: sort of have kdm working
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jose M. Sanchez)
Thu Oct 22 16:56:22 1998
Reply-To: "Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose@ex-pressnet.com>
From: "Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose@ex-pressnet.com>
To: "Patrick" <patrick@howard.genetics.utah.edu>
Cc: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:06:38 -0400
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
>> It turned out that the scripts need EXPLICIT paths to the applications
(and
>> NO links!)... the original scripts relied on shell path statements to
find
>> the executables...
>
>I think I see that now. I actually erred. The script changes I made to
>my .xinitrc file were not responsible for getting things going
>(sortof)...so in actuality, I guess I really don't know why, all of a
>sudden, kdm seems to work in a limited fashion.
>
.xinitrc is NOT used when the Window Managers are started via wdm/kdm/xdm.
>I found that my .xinitrc file changes did not work after killing kdm and
>logging in text means. Upon running startx I would get error messages
>complaining about the ifelse statements. I eliminated them, restarted
>kdm and found it still worked (sortof).
>
"startx" does utilize .xinitrc.
-JMS
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