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Date:      Sun, 30 Jul 2000 21:48:48 +0530
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To:        Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can not login in with XDM
Message-ID:  <20000730214848.A21137@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0007301157360.27391-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>; from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu on Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 12:05:49PM -0400
References:  <Pine.SOL.4.21.0007301157360.27391-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>

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Zhihui Zhang said on Jul 30, 2000 at 12:05:49:
> 
> According to instructions in Complete FreeBSD, I did the following to
> start X automatically.  In file /etc/rc.local, I added:
-snip-
> Now after I reboot, I see the XDM login window and I do the following:
> 
> username<CR>
> password<CR>
> 
> It changes to blank and then back to the XDM login window again!  

Try creating a .xsession file in your home directory (and make it
executable) with the gnome startup program, eg

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session 

You could also edit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession, but this way is
simpler if you're not worrying about other users.

Rahul.


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