On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 05:57, Ingo Lantschner wrote: > First of all, thanks for your suggestions, I am not finihed with trying them > all. At least they help me to get to new viewpoints in this dschungel of X. > > in the users homedirectory there are files like: > .TWM-errors: > /usr/X11R6/bin/RunWM: line 1: exec: twm: not found
This suggests that twm isn't installed, or isn't installed properly. Try "rpm -V XFree86-twm" to check it; you should get no output. > .xsession-errors: > WARNING: You selected Fvwm2 as your window manager, but your installation > does not appear to be functional. The executable /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2 was > not found on your system. > RESUMING with TWM... This sounds like Red Hat's /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients, which only gets called if the default session-manager-selection script /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession can't find a window manager. See below for an easier way to get icewm working on a Red Hat machine. > X connection to ws008.ltsp:0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). I'm not sure where this error is coming from. It's telling you that the X server on workstation ws008.ltsp has shut down. It's most likely shutting down because the window manager isn't starting. > So it seems as if my ~/.xinitrc is NOT used. > # exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fluxbox > exec /usr/bin/icewm > # exec /usr/bin/qvwm > > Examining /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/screen.d/startx shows me, that xinit is NOT used at > all. No, Red Hat seems to prefer Xsession. This script appears to be a superset of xinit, using different config files. > > May be, that this is the reason why the login is terminated immediatly after > successfull auth.? No, I think the login is terminated because the window manager isn't starting. Ignore /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/screen.d/startx. This script starts an X server on the workstation but has no direct effect on the window manager. Look at /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config. You will see this line: DisplayManager*session: /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession This line tells XDM to run /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession after authentication. In RedHat, /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession is a replacement for /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, so ~/.xinitrc will never get called. The easiest way to get icewm to come up one a RedHat box is to add the following files after you install icewm (they aren't included with icewm): /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/icewm /usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.icewm Here's what goes in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/icewm: #!/bin/bash exec /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession icewm Here's what goes in /usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.icewm: #!/bin/bash exec /usr/bin/icewm-session This integrates icewm into RedHat's Xsession selector. -- David Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Little Bald Consulting, LLC ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
