On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 11:04:11PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > Hello listers, > I have just decided to give GDM a try on a box running Woody. I have > found oddly, that esd no longer exits when the user does. Before I > used GDM, when the user logged out of their X session (which was > started by startx) esd died neatly for them. If I switch to VT, I can > log in and kill hte esd process without problems, but I figure the > computer is better at tedious tasks than I am, so I would like some > method to make it do this for me. > Similar issues with xnumlock - no longer starts when the user logs in. > I have selected the Debian option - it looks like that most closely > emulates the scripts used by startx, but it seems to be ignoring them. > Am I right in assuming that I should just put an entry for xnumlock in > /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default and something like killall esd in > /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default. Seems kind of clumsy to me, as there > are already X scripts in place for this, and duplication seems > unnecessary. > Any ideas/enlightenment/pointers to better docs? Have been reading > both man gdm, the gdm.conf that comes with the package, and the html > docs from it as well. > TIA, > Steve > -- > While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in. > -- Dean Rusk
Try changing /etc/esound/esd.conf so that auto_spawn=1 -- Jerome
