"Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I rebooted and gdm starts, opens icewm with aforementioned problems. > > I can only stop gdm as root. > > If I run startx as tom it starts gdm and opens icewm with the same ^^^ gdm too? That's strange ...
> problems. If I run startx as root it opens gnome and if I try to > switch users to tom its a no-op, the desktop remains open with root > as the user. I can't imagine where your problems come from, but I would try to create a new user with 'adduser testuser' (as root), shutdown gdm, login as that user and try startx and then some apps. If this works then compare ownership/permissions for homedir, dotfiles, ... BTW, the box you were comparing permissions with, does it also run etch? How/when was the user 'tom' created. Do you have other users on this box? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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