[gentoo-user] TIP: when xdm terminates immediately after login

[gentoo-user] TIP: when xdm terminates immediately after login

[Enrico Weigelt]

Hi folks,

just a little tip, for the archive:
(took me some time to track this down)

If you're using xdm and your session terminates immediately 
after login (w/o any clients started), you'll maybe have an 
bad ~/.xsession or ~/.Xclients file and also no xsm installed. 

The script /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession is called by xdm after login. 
This one now tries to call ~/.xsession (NOTE: *no* capitals!).
Here you the user has to put its individual stuff, ie. starting
the windowmanager, etc. Ah, this file, of course, has to be 
executable.

If ~/.xession is missing or not executable, the Xsession script
tries to call xsm as last resort. But if nothing could be started,
the X session will terminate and xdm login prompt comes back.


cu 
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