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[Lloyd Hayes]

Thanks for the effort!!!!

It may be the version that I have. I downloaded version 5.3 a two or 
three months ago. I may have a testing version of 5.3. I'm not sure. 
I'll download a new image some other time.

Lloyd Hayes

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Christian Hiris wrote:

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>On Sunday 07 November 2004 19:10, Lloyd Hayes wrote:
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>>Any editing that I try to do beyond the Xorg -configure leads to 'User"
>>and "Password" with it not accepting my system passwords. I searched for
>>".xinitrc" and ".xsession" and nothing showed up. I read in the FreeBSD
>>handbook about creating ".xsessions". Following the exact directions
>>listed, I got no such file or directory after:
>>echo "#!/bin/sh" > -/.xsession
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>This should be ~/.xsession, not -/.xsession                        
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>Ok I tried a setup on one of my machines to verify if gnome+xdm works:
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>Log-in as user and do: 
> > echo "#!/bin/sh" > ~/.xsession
> > echo "exec gnome-session" >> ~/.xsession 
> > chmod +x ~/.xsession
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>Log in as root and do:
> # ee /etc/ttys
>  change ttyv8   "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   off secure 
>  to   ttyv8   "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   on secure
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>Reboot the machine: 
> * Xdm login-screen shows up.
> * Log-in as user.
> * The Gnome desktop should start up.  
>
>Took me 1 minute and gnome was up and running. I'm using 5.3-STABLE #0: Mon 
>Nov  1 06:38:37 CET / xorg-clients-6.7.0_4 / gnome-session-2.6.2.
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>>This was version 5.3
>>Xorg is brand new, and there only seems to be a few lines of
>>documentation concerning it. I'm new to this whole thing, and having a
>>difficult time making sense of many things in the UNIX world. There is
>>more documentation about version 5.2.1 then 5.3. I'm in the process of
>>removing 5.3 and putting 5.2.1 back on here. And I think that I'll keep
>>XFree86 on it.
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>If things don't work show us your logs and config-files:
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>~/.xsession-errors
>/var/log/0.log
>/var/log/Xorg.0.log
>xorg.conf
>~/.xsession
>/etc/ttys
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