(This is being resent, as I have had to reconfigure my mail program to get around internic's objection to the debian.org name)
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Aug 12, 1998 at 03:20:30PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Why you get different behaviour from xdm and start might be explained by > > this: There's a script /etc/X11/Xsession that claims to be run by both > > xdm and xinit (to which startx is a wrapper.) The script seems to look > > for ~/.xsession only though. Maybe it isn't run after all from xinit on > > Debian systems. That means that the comments in the file are misleading. > > I don't actually have either ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc, which is why I find > this all the more strange. Ok - what about your /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file? This should be a symbolic link to ../Xsession; if it isn't, then I can understand why you get this odd behavior. If it is a symbolic link, then something must be going wrong in the /etc/X11/Xsession script when started by startx. Tell me, is the file ~/.xsession-errors created when you start X with startx? (Delete the file first, as it's surely being created when you log in via xdm) If so, do the contents of that file after starting X with startx provide any clue as to what's going on?
