Der Julien, I'm sorry for this false bug report. I have a somewhat complex .xinitrc and the behaviour of gnome-settings-daemon changed with the release of GNOME 3.0 so i had to background it and that fixed it.
Please excuse the inconvenience. You can delete this bug report. Sincerely, Adrian Kiess On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 05:30:28 +0100, root wrote: > > > Package: xinit > > Version: 1.3.1-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > startx does not start the window manager in debian/testing. It boots to > the default background image and then hangs. Same sign when starting System > Session through GDM. > > Selecting GNOME or KDE session through GDM though works fine. > > > Please attach: > - ~/.xinitrc > - ~/.xsessionrc > - ~/.xsession > - ~/.xsession-errors > > And the full output from startx. > > Cheers, > Julien > -- Adrian Immanuel Kieß (adrian at immanuelK.net)