Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:40:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xdm and gdm Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207212039050.5042@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20120721203722.476df334.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207211916560.4443@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20120721203722.476df334.freebsd@edvax.de>
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> Is this a typo? > > According to the Handbook, /usr/local/bin/gnome-session > (without trailing 's') should be executed. indeed a typo. thank you. >> after loggin in it just exits. no .xsession-errors is created. no idea >> where to seek error messages at all. > > Maybe errors are reported to the 1st virtual terminal > where the XDM process outputs its messages to (currently > not running xdm, so I can't check). there are imho nowhere. > > Do you have > > gdm_enable="YES" > gnome_enable="YES" > > in /etc/rc.conf, and /proc mounted, as suggested in the Handbook? > Maybe gdm has some "preparations" that aren't found by gnome-session > when started autonomously. But the Handbook says it works without gdm is fine and works. the problem is that i wasn't able to my non-gnome .xsession work properly with gdm at all. at the same time i like xdm and want to use, RARELY use it to run gnome. Do you have any data about preparations that gdm do?
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