Samuel Baldwin wrote:
I've recently installed GDM, XDM, and Fluxbox on a new Gentoo machine. When I boot to XDM, and login as root, everything is fine and dandy, with a nice Fluxbox desktop. When I login as my user, it just hangs on a black screen (which xdm used to do when it was pointing to a wm that didn't exist). CAD, CAB, and CAF1 do nothing, and I'm forced to reboot via the power button. I do not know why it is doing this (perhaps bad permissions for fluxbox?), and I would prefer not to do everything as root.
Did you run etc-update? Make sure /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers says vt7 at the end. Try changing XSTATICVT in /etc/conf.d/xdm if you already have the vt7 set in Xservers.
On the side, is it possible to customize the appearance of XDM (I know I can for GDM)?
Yeah it uses the fun Xresources stuff. You should be able to configure for your system in e.g. /etc/X11/app-defaults/xdm. See the xdm man page for details.
Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
