Subject: Fwd: Re: how to configure users X setup? Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:13:27 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5
this to reply too ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: how to configure users X setup? Date: Wednesday 13 June 2007 15:42 From: Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:29:25 +1000 M-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > In much the same situation, on an old Toshiba laptop, 64 MB RAM and > 10 GB hard drive, Etch installed, using fluxbox window manager and I > created an ~/.Xsession just as your example above. With is file the > machine boots to XDM and when the user name and password are inserted > appropriately, just keeps coming back to XDM login. > > So I have to kill the GUI and get in through CLI and remove the > ~/.Xsession script and then restart with startx. > > So there must be something wrong, either with the scrip, or something > the script interferes with? I wonder if it works for Zach? > > I had hoped that I would be able to get gkrellm and the Rox panel to > run after fluxbox has started. This should possibly be able to be > placed in the ~/.fluxbox/init script, but it won't happen. Mainly > because even though I have googled extensively, and read the fluxbox > wiki and all the documentation I could find, none had the answer. > Created startup scrips and such, have not had any joy with any of > these. > > I just thought that maybe the "Debian way" you described above might > be the way to go. Could you show us the contents of the ~/.Xsession file? The contents of the file /etc/X11/Xsession.options could be relevant too. Forwarded this to the machine in question to get those details. Here is the ~/.Xsession file in question. #!/bin/sh # # My creation .Xsession file # # To remove the cursor after a short break unclutter -idle 1 & # To get up the Rox panel rox -b=MyPanel & # Have gkrellm working gkrellm & # Start Fluxbox, maybe it should be up top. Not according to Liam's example exec /usr/bin/fluxbox & Here is the /etc/X11/Xsession.options # $Id: Xsession.options 189 2005-06-11 00:04:27Z branden $ # # configuration options for /etc/X11/Xsession # See Xsession.options(5) for an explanation of the available options. allow-failsafe allow-user-resources allow-user-xsession use-ssh-agent use-session-dbus Maybe you have a solution. It's not a big thing, because it's only a couple of mouse clicks and tab keystrokes to get the panel up. But I would have liked to get it running the way desired. Charlie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
