Ron Farrer wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm running gnome-session and WindowMaker, I am trying to get > Gnome-session to load my '~/.Xclients' file. It did for a while but > after upgrading potato to the most recent potato it quite working. > > Here is what I did to get all of this working before. I've changed my > '/etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome' to include (line numbers added for clarity): > > 95: usrclients=$HOME/.Xclients > > 126: if haveoption allow-user-clients; then > 127: if [ -f $usrclients ]; then > 128: source $usrclients > 129: fi > 130: fi > > My '/etc/X11/Xsession.options looks like: > > allow-failsafe > allow-user-modmap > allow-user-resources > allow-user-clients > allow-user-xsession > use-ssh-agent > > Here is my '~/.Xclients': > > #!/bin/bash > > echo "Beginning to load .Xclients" > ~/.xlog > > xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults & > xrdb -merge ~/.Xauthority & > > xhost +localhost & > xhost +mustang & > > echo "Finished loading .Xclients" > ~/.xlog > > Here is the permissions on it (I changed them to 777 just to see if that > helped, otherwise I wouldn't give anyone permission to execute something > of mine!): > > 1 -rwxrwxrwx 1 rbf rbf 196 May 14 08:38 .Xclients > > I am lost as to why it worked for a while then all of a suddent not. > There are no errors in any '~/.X*' or '~/.x*' files. > > When I add "exec" to the beginning of every command in my '~/.Xclients' > I cannot login. It ends up back at the gdm login screen. If I remove > them (as in the example above) I can log in but it doesn't execute the > commands. If I add "exec" to my '/etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome' on line 128 it > also fails to login and I end up back at gdm. > > Any ideas? =================================================================== I think you need to edit the file /home/"your user directory"/.Xsession to correct this. I had a similar problem with getting the gnome-session panels and my gnome defaults to work with Enlightenment after upgrading. I added the line exec gnome-session to this file and everything was OK again. -- AdVance-Computing Systems
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