From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 23 10:54:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-ether.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.1.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DF0237B654 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 10:54:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from siegbert.baude@gmx.de) Received: from gmx.de (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA02653; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 19:54:17 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <397B3149.C2F6D29@gmx.de> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 19:54:17 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.1-RC i386) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" , "Mark A. Hummel" Subject: Re: Can't start xdm on boot ??? References: <3978E49A.9BC088C0@ispchannel.com> <20000721222444.A65216@gforce.johnson.home> <39792F33.B7F7FFF4@ispchannel.com> <20000722004411.A526@gforce.johnson.home> <3951AE4D.4226AB6E@ispchannel.com> <20000722203251.A44213@skitty.catseye.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Timothy Legant wrote: > > I forgot to mention the file /root/.xsession is executable and contains > > only 1 line: Instead of fumbling with everyones personal .xsession files you can also tweak /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession > > exec startkde > > I have a vague recollection that the environment in which xdm executes is > minimal. In other words, startkde almost assuredly is not in the path, > so it fails to start and xdm takes over again. > > My .xsession reads > > PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin" > exec wmaker To adapt the PATH for all users you can change /etc/login.conf instead. > > You probably need to set the path to startkde, or state it explicitly > > exec /usr/X11R6/bin/startkde For me it's: exec /usr/local/bin/startkde I don't know, if this still is necessary after changing /etc/login.conf Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message