wdm doesn't start windowing manager.

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Fri Apr 9 19:57:45 UTC 2010


On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Neil Short <neshort at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Has anybody had this problem and fixed it?
> wdm runs my ~/.xsession file; but no X-applications run. It just runs past
> them and returns to the  wdm login screen.
>
> Currently I am running xdm; but it's kind of bland and spicing it up
> requires a very steep learning curve.
>

I've had issue with desktop environment in the past with similar behavior.
Usually for me is was a permissions problem, but you should be able to turn
up logging verbosity to figure out where your specific issue is.



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Adam Vande More


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