On 31.3.2003 18:51 Uhr, "Mario Vukelic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1.) I can't follow you: You first say that you do startx, but after you > crash you are back to the xdm login screen. If you startx, you should be > back at the console after crashing. > If you have xdm running at terminal 7 (strg+alt+F7), you probably have > to call startx like that 'startx -- :1' to stret X at terminal 8 > (because xdm is aleady running at terminal 7 Sorry for the confusion. Since I installed XDM I can login as root and Gnome starts fine. If I login at XDM with a normal user it throws me back to the XDM login screen. > 2.) If you use Gnome anyway, you are probably better off with gdm > instead of xdm Why is that? >> My log of ~/.xsession-errors (normal user, not root) tells me that the fonts >> are not installed correctly. I think that the fonts are installed correctly >> otherwise I could not perfectly do 'startx' as root-user. > > If you actually had pasted the error, the list would be in a better > position to help :) SESSION_MANAGER=local/dell:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1241 No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig library is not correctly configured. You may need to edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual page and on http://fontconfig.org Thanks for your help and time. Zeno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
