On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 19:19:15 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: > i run xdm normally. after logging it runs my $HOME/.xsession that starts > things like fvwm2 > > i wanted to run gnome-session once, changed fvwm2 to > /usr/local/bin/gnome-sessions ^ Is this a typo?
According to the Handbook, /usr/local/bin/gnome-session (without trailing 's') should be executed. Source: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html See 6.7.1.2: Installing GNOME. > 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). > with gdm loading gnome works. 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, so it should work either per .xinitrc ("startx" command) _and_ also with xdm (and therefore with wdm and others). > any ideas? (except: "just use gdm" please) Just use... computer. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"