On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 01:21:21PM EST, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 22:18:51 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > [...] > > > I started up gdm to give myself choices on sessions (to test fully > > whether this was a problem across the board with WM's) and found things > > working properly across the board. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]&! > > > > Go figure. Using gdm enables the keys. Without gdm, no go. Several > > oddities: > > > > I notice as I write this note is that the keyboard is no longer > > inputting as UTF-8 encoding (i.e. I don't have to hit a space to have a > > quote mark print on its own instead of generating an umlaut, etc). > > > > Also, trying to start a gnome session failed--iceWM came up instead of > > Metacity, and the gnome session part froze. > > > > Lastly, VT 7 is not being used by gdm--8 is being used. ???? > > > > But now I can switch VT's as desired as long as gdm is running. > > > > So am I correct in assuming that gdm has somehow caused this problem? I > > was using it for a while but decided to stop it, opting for a leaner > > approach to things. I don't recall when that was relative to noticing > > the switching terminal problem. > > So it sort of works at the moment. I do not know the interactions > between gdm, the window managers and Xorg well enough to guess whose > "fault" this behavior is. > > However, a recent post of Kent West has reminded me of something that I > had forgotten. It might help to remove the xlibs package; see here: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/02/msg02398.html
I've pretty much lost track but if the OP absolutely needs a GUI logon screen .. did he try the alternatives to gdm (xdm, kdm, wdm, ..) ?? Otherwise what's wrong with .. $ startx $(which window-manager) -- 0: ... ? Is this a corporate setup where he needs to provide a GUI login screen to a crowd of users? Or is K.W. actually claiming that he must have gdm in order to be able to switch to a console and that all else fails? Just my two cents .. please ignore if I missed something. Thanks, cga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
