> Most importantly you are not starting up a window manager there!?
> Which is the whole point of the ~/.xsession file. You may find
> reading through the default startup scripts /etc/X11/Xsession* useful
> to understand this process. The very last line is 'exec $STARTUP'.
> The 'exec' overlays a
> I had this problem for months with one box.
...
> Perhaps yours is that easy too.
nope, the shell is set correctly.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] acs]$ grep acs /etc/passwd
acs:x:1000:1000:Adam Siepel,,,:/home/acs:/bin/bash
> Make sure your ~/.xsession file is executable.
>
> chmod a+x ~/.xsession
>
Adam Siepel wrote:
> permissions look good.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] acs]$ ls -l ~/.xsession
> -rwx--1 acs acs60 Jun 7 08:59 /home/acs/.xsession*
Seems reasonable enough. I am not that restrictive myself. (But
people at work want to be able to copy my files. :-)
> I mus
Adam Siepel wrote:
> > How X starts up can be a mystery. I use "startx" which uses my
> > ~/.xsession. Others do the same and report ~/.xsession is ignored in
> > favour of ~/.xinitrc.
The ~/.xinitrc file is read by xinit. This is a typical start when a
user logs into the text console and then
On Saturday 05 June 2004 22:10, Adam Siepel wrote:
> > How X starts up can be a mystery. I use "startx" which uses my
> > ~/.xsession. Others do the same and report ~/.xsession is
> > ignored in favour of ~/.xinitrc.
> >
> > With that in mind, change the file in question. The first line
> > shou
Incoming from Adam Siepel:
> > ~/.xsession. Others do the same and report ~/.xsession is ignored in
> > favour of ~/.xinitrc.
> >
> > With that in mind, change the file in question. The first line should
> > be:
> >
> > #!/bin/bash --login
> >
> > which will make it a login shell, and your b
> How X starts up can be a mystery. I use "startx" which uses my
> ~/.xsession. Others do the same and report ~/.xsession is ignored in
> favour of ~/.xinitrc.
>
> With that in mind, change the file in question. The first line should
> be:
>
> #!/bin/bash --login
>
> which will make it a lo
Incoming from Adam Siepel:
> Hi -- I'm using gdm, gnome, and bash, and can't seem to get things set up
> so my .bash_profile gets read properly upon login. I've seen some messages
> on various lists that advised explicitly sourcing .bash_profile in
> .xsession for proper startup -- problem is rela
Hi -- I'm using gdm, gnome, and bash, and can't seem to get things set up
so my .bash_profile gets read properly upon login. I've seen some messages
on various lists that advised explicitly sourcing .bash_profile in
.xsession for proper startup -- problem is related to Xsession being run as
/bin/s
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