gdm and Xclient

[Bill Smith]

Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 11:28 +0100, Bill Smith wrote:
>> Another problem with my newly installed gnome setup, if I enable gdm it 
>> complains that "this system has no Xclients file, putting you into a 
>> failsafe terminal session", I have never seen that before and it is a 
>> little annoying, I have done a google on Xclient and not really come up 
>> with anything useful, except a lot of comments verifying what I am seeing.
>> So my question is how can I set up an Xclient to satisfy gdm's desire, 
>> and what did I miss to get this in the first place?
> 
> What session are you using?  Make sure you've select GNOME and not
> Default.
thanks Joe, that was the problem, I must keep more up to date with the 
documentation in future.

-- 
Bill