[gentoo-user] XDM / GDM hangs when logging in.

[gentoo-user] XDM / GDM hangs when logging in.

[Samuel Baldwin]

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I've recently installed GDM, XDM, and Fluxbox on a new Gentoo machine. When
I boot to XDM, and login as root, everything is fine and dandy, with a nice
Fluxbox desktop. When I login as my user, it just hangs on a black screen
(which xdm used to do when it was pointing to a wm that didn't exist). CAD,
CAB, and CAF1 do nothing, and I'm forced to reboot via the power button. I
do not know why it is doing this (perhaps bad permissions for fluxbox?), and
I would prefer not to do everything as root.

On the side, is it possible to customize the appearance of XDM (I know I can
for GDM)?

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Re: [gentoo-user] XDM / GDM hangs when logging in.

[Donnie Berkholz]

Samuel Baldwin wrote:
> I've recently installed GDM, XDM, and Fluxbox on a new Gentoo machine. 
> When I boot to XDM, and login as root, everything is fine and dandy, 
> with a nice Fluxbox desktop. When I login as my user, it just hangs on a 
> black screen (which xdm used to do when it was pointing to a wm that 
> didn't exist). CAD, CAB, and CAF1 do nothing, and I'm forced to reboot 
> via the power button. I do not know why it is doing this (perhaps bad 
> permissions for fluxbox?), and I would prefer not to do everything as root.

Did you run etc-update? Make sure /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers says vt7 at the 
end. Try changing XSTATICVT in /etc/conf.d/xdm if you already have the 
vt7 set in Xservers.

> On the side, is it possible to customize the appearance of XDM (I know I 
> can for GDM)?

Yeah it uses the fun Xresources stuff. You should be able to configure 
for your system in e.g. /etc/X11/app-defaults/xdm. See the xdm man page 
for details.

Thanks,
Donnie
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Re: [gentoo-user] XDM / GDM hangs when logging in.

[Max Lorenz]

Hi,

On 8/18/06, Samuel Baldwin <shardz4217@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On the side, is it possible to customize the appearance of XDM (I know I can
> for GDM)?

http://daimeria.com/linhowtos/xdm.php
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Re: [gentoo-user] XDM / GDM hangs when logging in.

[Samuel Baldwin]

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Thanks to both, I got it to work. And with a different background.

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Samuel (shardz)

Noha+Shardz Productions: nsproductions.co.nr

Registered Linux User #410639

amarok.kde.org
usmc.mil

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