[gentoo-user] Fluxbox without/with gdm ?

[gentoo-user] Fluxbox without/with gdm ?

[dnlt0hn5ntzhbqkv51]

Tiring of bloat, I removed everything kde-ish and installed fluxbox -  
without installing gdm (gdm was recommended in the Gentoo fluxbox doc, but  
I figured I didn't need the GUI startup. (bloat avoidance)).

I tweaked .initrc, startx'd and fluxbox was great......... except....when  
entering passwords (e.g. su; gpg), I'd frequently have to reenter 5-8  
times.

Out of desparation, I emerged gdm (without xdm startup) and BANG -  
password problem cured!

Please explain why this happened!?  How does GDM affect fluxbox which is  
invoked by startx/.initrc??

TIA

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Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox without/with gdm ?

[Hans-Werner Hilse]

Hi,

On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 11:59:10 -0400
dnlt0hn5ntzhbqkv51 <dnlt0hn5ntzhbqkv51@safe-mail.net> wrote:

> I tweaked .initrc, startx'd and fluxbox was great......... except....when  
> entering passwords (e.g. su; gpg), I'd frequently have to reenter 5-8  
> times.
> 
> Out of desparation, I emerged gdm (without xdm startup) and BANG -  
> password problem cured!
> 
> Please explain why this happened!?  How does GDM affect fluxbox which is  
> invoked by startx/.initrc??

Keyboard/modmap settings that you don't do manually in your .xinitrc?
Other than that, I see little chances that any X stuff could break a
console app like "su". You could try strace'ing the "su"...

-hwh
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