[96058] in RedHat Linux List
Another xdm/kdm problem question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick)
Fri Oct 23 11:06:04 1998
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 09:00:24 -0600 (MDT)
From: Patrick <patrick@howard.genetics.utah.edu>
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OK, I posted that I had kdm working in a limited fashion. That still
remains the case. I have entered the following sessions: kde,
enlightenment, icewm, fvwm, and failsafe. If I login as root or with my
username, I can start kde without problems (it is the first in the list
and, thus, the default). If I select enlightenment (the second choice)
what happens is the screen jumps to the X startup (crosshatched grey
background with the X cursor) but then jumps back to the kdm login
screen, having failed to start enlightenment. I can start icewm though
it doesn't seem to want to take alterations to the configuration. fvwm
starts fvwm2 without problems, and failsafe starts an xterm without problems.
As I said, I cannot start enlightenment directly from the kdm login but
if I go to failsafe (xterm) and enter "enlightenment" there,
enlightenment will startup, though without sound.
The Xsessions file has the EXPLICIT location of enlightenment entered,
that is "/usr/enlightenment/bin/enlightenment" instead of the soft link
to this in /usr/bin/.
If I kill kdm and login the text way, I can start enlightenment just fine
(with sound) by entering "xinit /usr/enlightenment/bin/enlightenment"
instead of "startx" (which as my user default starts kde).
What is the problem? Any ideas? I thought I was on the verge of
"fixing" the problem but I have no idea why I cannot start enlightenment
(and ONLY enlightenment) from kdm...and though icewm will start, it
uses some ugly, basic X-windows defaults for its look/feel and wont
accept configuration changes made with iceconf. Me thinks this is also a
funtion of starting it via kdm, though I am not certain. At least it
does start.
Puzzled (and frustrated),
patrick
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