Re: [gentoo-user] XSESSION="Xsession" doesn't work!

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Wednesday 18 July 2007 07:16, Dale wrote:
> Elias Probst wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 17. Juli 2007 23:01:12 schrieb Stroller:
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> I'm fairly experienced with Linux and have been using Gentoo for over
> >> 3 years, ...
> >
> > Probably, you're not that fairly experienced regarding the usage of your
> > mail client. ;-)
> >
> > Regards, Elias P.
>
> Well, I don't know about yours but mine says they were all sent at the
> same exact time.  So why are they arriving at different times?  Are we
> sure this is him and not something else?
>
> It is weird though.  Something fishy somewhere.

For what it's worth I only got the one.  If everyone else got multiple 
messages then perhaps gmail is filtering them.

With regards to the OP getting twm running, that should be the default WM if 
Xsession is used.  Does your /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc contain something like 
this at the bottom?
================================
 # start some nice programs
   twm &
   xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
   xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
   xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
   exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login
================================

What is the default shell that the user has in this OS image?  That may affect 
how xinit is run and what it can do thereafter.  Also, if you hosed 
you .bashrc and a shell was defined in there, then that might explain why you 
could see xterms launching before, but not any more.

Anyway, just some loose thoughts.  Perhaps you can reload the image afresh and 
see what happens then.

HTH.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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