Re: [potato] gdm doesn't start windowmanager

1999-08-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I verified it: my .xsession-errors stays empty :-(. > Under gdm/Gnome your errors go to .gnome-errors and/or .gnomerc-errors (couldn't figure out when which file is used ...) instead of .xsession-errors. You should set debugging on in the gdm.conf

Re: [potato] gdm doesn't start windowmanager

1999-08-05 Thread Nico De Ranter
> Nico De Ranter wrote: > > > > Howdy, > > > > I don't know whether this is the correct mailinglist to post > > this but anyway... > > > > I upgraded my Debian box to unstable and installed gdm. Unfortunately > > when I try to login the screen flickers a few times and the gdm screen > > pops bac

Re: [potato] gdm doesn't start windowmanager

1999-08-05 Thread Nico De Ranter
> I had the same problem, and I found that there were a couple of things that > could be behind it first it could be a bad xsession file, or it could be > an issue with the window manager, either it's not correctly installed, or the > /etc/X11/window-managers file is trying to start a window

Re: [potato] gdm doesn't start windowmanager

1999-08-04 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Howdy, > > I don't know whether this is the correct mailinglist to post > this but anyway... > > I upgraded my Debian box to unstable and installed gdm. Unfortunately > when I try to login the screen flickers a few times and the gdm screen > pops back. When I start X b

Re: [potato] gdm doesn't start windowmanager

1999-08-04 Thread Raphael clancy
I had the same problem, and I found that there were a couple of things that could be behind it first it could be a bad xsession file, or it could be an issue with the window manager, either it's not correctly installed, or the /etc/X11/window-managers file is trying to start a windowmanager

[potato] gdm doesn't start windowmanager

1999-08-04 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I don't know whether this is the correct mailinglist to post this but anyway... I upgraded my Debian box to unstable and installed gdm. Unfortunately when I try to login the screen flickers a few times and the gdm screen pops back. When I start X by typing startx from a text console eve