Re: Startup help for a newbie?

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Is the .xsession file executable (ie. if you run "chmod a+x ~/.xsession"
does it make any difference)?

If you know a little shell, you can see exactly what xdm does when you
log in by reading /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession.  From that file, it executes the
first file that is found and executable in this list:
  ~/.xsession, ~/.Xclients, /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients

James Henstridge.

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On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Jim Meyer wrote:

> Howdy!
> 
> I've just installed gnome 0.99.8 on my RH5.2, 2.2.2 box. I very
> carefully read the web-page docs and users guide, as well as the FAQ
> (v1.0) and, well, here I am about to ask silly questions.
> 
> The install went smoothly and everything's there. /usr/bin, where
> gnome-session is located, is part of my path. I noted that the docs
> online said that, since I have xdm running (I start it in rc.local when
> the box comes up), I should put:
> 
>   exec gnome-session
> 
> ...into ~/.xsession. I did this. Nothing happened out of the ordinary
> when I logged in; I'm still in fvwm2 (boy, am I ready to play with
> Enlightenment!) with no gnome* processes running. I'm certain it's some
> failing on my part, but I certainly can't find any segment of
> documentation to tell me just what I've done wrong.
> 
> Help?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --j
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> Jim Meyer                                                    
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