[Techtalk] gdm problem

Liz Young liz at kandew.net
Mon Aug 26 07:46:01 EST 2002


On Sunday 25 August 2002 05:28 pm, /dev/null wrote:
> thanks heaps liz....
>
> it worked, it added the session to my display manager....
> but i have a major problem - the three new entries in gdm (Sawfish,
> gnome-session and Fluxbox) all end up with just a blank xterm when i
> log in to them...

Hey, that's still not finding the WM :-(.  

> strangely, all of the entries in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions are still
> chmod 755, so thats stayed okay this time... it just doesnt seem to
> be starting gnome properly...
>
> any ideas?

Do you have a .gnome directory in ~?  Is there a default.wm in there?

> thanx again
> m

I'd really like to know when this resolves, I'm thinking about updating 
a RH 7.3 box here for testing.

Liz



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