Re: GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

2010-04-26 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-04-25, Disc Magnet wrote: ---SNIP--- > I was just experimenting to see if I can > put any startup commands which will run everytime I log into GNOME. In > both trials, GNOME crashed. Put the commands in .gnomerc (for GNOME only) or .xsessionrc (for all X sessions). If you want to start gr

Re: GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

2010-04-25 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:37:25 +0530, Disc Magnet wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:05:45 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> >>> ~/.xsession is recognized by the Xsession usually located at >>> /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession or /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession.  gdm, us

Re: GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

2010-04-25 Thread Disc Magnet
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:05:45 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > >> On 4/14/10, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > >>> Anyway, what is the full content of your "~/.xsession" file and what is >>> your final

Re: GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

2010-04-16 Thread Jon Dowland
Freeman wrote: > An empty .xsession file will crash Gnome too. (I remember that debacle.) I > can't offer a technical explanation. Maybe it can be viewed as similar to > initiating two desktops environments simultaneously. I'm not convinced GNOME is actually involved here.

Re: GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

2010-04-16 Thread Marc Olive
El Thursday 15 April 2010 09:11:21 Freeman va escriure: > An empty .xsession file will crash Gnome too. (I remember that debacle.) I > can't offer a technical explanation. Maybe it can be viewed as similar to > initiating two desktops environments simultaneously. .xsession is

Re: GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

2010-04-15 Thread Freeman
) :-? > > Anyway, what is the full content of your "~/.xsession" file and what is > your final purpose, I mean, what do you want to achieve with that file? > > Greetings, > An empty .xsession file will crash Gnome too. (I remember that debacle.) I can't offer

Re: GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

2010-04-14 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:05:45 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On 4/14/10, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Anyway, what is the full content of your "~/.xsession" file and what is >> your final purpose, I mean, what do you want to achieve with that file? > ~/.xsession i

Re: GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

2010-04-14 Thread Javier Vasquez
what is the full content of your "~/.xsession" file and what is > your final purpose, I mean, what do you want to achieve with that file? > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón ~/.xsession is recognized by the Xsession usually located at /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession or /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession

Re: GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

2010-04-14 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:55:18 +0530, Disc Magnet wrote: > So, how do I prevent it from crashing and successfully log in? Curious is that I don't have such file in my home (running Lenny and GNOME here) :-? Anyway, what is the full content of your "~/.xsession" file and w

Re: GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

2010-04-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Disc Magnet wrote: > So, how do I prevent it from crashing and successfully log in? Delete the .xsession file. I'm running GNOME, and don't have one. Patrick > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 14 Apr 201

Re: GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

2010-04-14 Thread Disc Magnet
So, how do I prevent it from crashing and successfully log in? On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:51:00 +0530, Disc Magnet wrote: > >> If I create an empty (0 length) .xsession or an .xsession file >> containing one line, say, echo hello,

Re: GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

2010-04-14 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:51:00 +0530, Disc Magnet wrote: > If I create an empty (0 length) .xsession or an .xsession file > containing one line, say, echo hello, world, I get this error when I try > to log into GNOME. > > Your session lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have

GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

2010-04-14 Thread Disc Magnet
If I create an empty (0 length) .xsession or an .xsession file containing one line, say, echo hello, world, I get this error when I try to log into GNOME. Your session lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself this could mean there is some installation problem or that you

Re: xsession file

2007-07-20 Thread Bob Proulx
way to handle it and gave up trying. Eventually it will get fixed. Therefore in order to configure Gnome and KDE to set up a login environment and to source the users ~/.bash_profile file as a login environment should do then we do as the FAQ suggested and set up a ~/.xsession file. In that xsession

Re: xsession file

2007-07-20 Thread Bob Proulx
ctice says to use 'exec' and to eliminate the useless shell process entirely. > Or in other words, the .xsession file can be placed in your home > directory which will be souced and commands executed from the file and > the X session lasts until the .xsession file completes and ret

Re: xsession file

2007-07-20 Thread Bob Proulx
John Hasler wrote: > Fvwm2 is now fvwm (has been for quite a while). 'fvwm2' is a command that explicitly selects fvwm version 2 window manager. In the fvwm package, now version 2 with fvwm1 being the older version 1 program, two commands are installed. One is /usr/bin/fvwm2 which is the binary

Re: xsession file

2007-07-20 Thread Bob Proulx
on and want to start a specific window or session manager then I think it is better simply to select the desired manager explicitly. Therefore in the ~/.xsession file instead of using x-session-manager I think it makes more sense to simply start gnome-session or startkde directly as desired. > M

Re: xsession file

2007-07-20 Thread Bob Proulx
ted to > log out, it does NOT log out immediately, but after at least five minutes > later. Why is that? I guess my .xsession file has problem, but do not know > how to fix. Try the corrected version first and then see if the problem persists. If it was related to the incorrect attempt t

Re: xsession file

2007-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/20/07 21:17, Nguyen, Cuong K. wrote: > Hi John, > > Even fvwm not found in my system (install from the latest DVD downloaded > from debian) :( > > Sorry, I only know that I am now using Gnome, so what is a windows > manager then? Is gnome a des

Re: xsession file

2007-07-20 Thread Nguyen, Cuong K.
Hi John, Even fvwm not found in my system (install from the latest DVD downloaded from debian) :( Sorry, I only know that I am now using Gnome, so what is a windows manager then? Is gnome a desktop shipped with that windows manager? KC. John Hasler wrote: I do not have fvwm2 (not found wh

Re: xsession file

2007-07-20 Thread John Hasler
> I do not have fvwm2 (not found when type fvwm2 --help as root) Fvwm2 is now fvwm (has been for quite a while). > my default windows manager is gnome Gnome is not a window manager. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: xsession file

2007-07-20 Thread Nguyen, Cuong K.
#!/bin/sh exec x-window-manager & exec gnome-session and it works. But one problem arises: when I logged in, and if I wanted to log out, it does NOT log out immediately, but after at least five minutes later. Why is that? I guess my .xsession file has problem, but do not know how to

Re: xsession file

2007-07-20 Thread Bhasker C V
in other words, the .xsession file can be placed in your home directory which will be souced and commands executed from the file and the X session lasts until the .xsession file completes and returns (the last command returns ) X session will also last till all the clients connected to the X session te

Re: xsession file

2007-07-20 Thread Nguyen, Cuong K.
ECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/20/07 19:47, Nguyen, Cuong K. wrote: > Hi all, > > I have Debian Etch 4.0 and it is quite new to me. I want to customize > some scripts starting with Gnome every time when I boot up and log in, > and the method chosen

Re: xsession file

2007-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/20/07 19:47, Nguyen, Cuong K. wrote: > Hi all, > > I have Debian Etch 4.0 and it is quite new to me. I want to customize > some scripts starting with Gnome every time when I boot up and log in, > and the method chosen is to use ~

Re: xsession file

2007-07-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Nguyen, Cuong K. wrote: > I need to create one, but then I do not know what is the "official" > command(s) to pass off the process to gnome whenever the script is > implement. Tried gdm, xdm, /etc/init.d/gdm, startx etc... with no > luck. Everybody has an idea? Use something like this: #!/bin/b

xsession file

2007-07-20 Thread Nguyen, Cuong K.
Hi all, I have Debian Etch 4.0 and it is quite new to me. I want to customize some scripts starting with Gnome every time when I boot up and log in, and the method chosen is to use ~/.xsession file. The problem is I do not see that file in my home folder. I need to create one, but then I do

Re: [SID] Base Xsession file lost? And gdm error messages - Solved

2004-04-14 Thread Sylvain Vedrenne
Hi, No more problem by now. Apparently, I got rid of *all* the symptoms I had with gdm by doing this:    apt-get --purge remove gdm         (it said it didn't remove /etc/dm/)    rm -rf /etc/dm/  (so that everything is removed)    apt-get install gdm And now it works fin

Re: [SID] Base Xsession file lost? And gdm error messages

2004-04-14 Thread Sylvain Vedrenne
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 11:02, Sylvain Vedrenne wrote: SV> Hello, SV> SV> I've got various problems with gdm since I upgraded my SID 2 days ago. SV> SV> Thanks to some of you I found out how to put Window Maker, Gnome, Xfce and KDE SV> back into the drop-down list of gdm, I mean I browsed recen

[SID] Base Xsession file lost? And gdm error messages

2004-04-14 Thread Sylvain Vedrenne
Hello, I've got various problems with gdm since I upgraded my SID 2 days ago. Thanks to some of you I found out how to put Window Maker, Gnome, Xfce and KDE back into the drop-down list of gdm, BUT gdm still doesn't work correctly (before finding about the new SomeWM.desktop files, I messed a

Re: Where is my .xsession file?

1997-05-15 Thread Todd Harper
In message "Where is my .xsession file?", [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > OK, I created my own .xsession file just like yours. I exited Xwindows and i > get the login Xwindow prompt. I login as root (the .xsession file is in > /root) > everything looks the same. What am I d

Re: Where is my .xsession file?

1997-05-15 Thread Rick Jones
In /etc/X11/config file put run-xconsole obey-nologin allow-user-resources allow-user-modmap allow-user-xsession allow-failsafe start-xdm use-sessreg xdm-start-server This should cover it. On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: > OK, I created my own .xsession file just like yours. I exi

Re: Where is my .xsession file?

1997-05-15 Thread Alberto Ruiz
OK, I created my own .xsession file just like yours. I exited Xwindows and i get the login Xwindow prompt. I login as root (the .xsession file is in /root) everything looks the same. What am I doing wrong? Do I have to kill xdm? Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Thu, 15 May 1997, A

Re: Where is my .xsession file?

1997-05-15 Thread Rick Jones
ectory. The bare minimum is: my ~/.xsession file #!/bin/sh exec afterstep --Rick Unsolicited commercial/propaganda email subject to legal action. Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), Sec.227(b)(1)(C), and Sec.227(b)(3)(C), a State may impose a fine of NOT LESS than $500 per message. Read the f

Where is my .xsession file?

1997-05-15 Thread Alberto Ruiz
Hi again, I did a search for .xsession and it was not found anywhere on my system. Isn't xdm or any of the other Xwindow program suposse to create it or a least come with templeates or default files? Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "uns