I have been bitten by this quite a few times before, so I started preparing in advance a .xsession file. Looking at this thread, I decided to check how things are now with -current and installed a fresh overnight build under VirtualBox with full configuration during sysinstall, enabling xdm and creating a new user. Everything worked as expected, the three default processes were started properly, I could checkpoint a session etc. So whatever the reason was with the earlier versions, with 8.99.2 it seems just fine.
The only thing which didn't work was first login with the created user - it didn't get the password - but I was able to login as root - again with xdm - and reset that password, after which the user login also worked as expected. That could have been a pebcak, though. Chavdar On Sun, 17 Sep 2017 at 20:57 Rhialto <rhia...@falu.nl> wrote: > On Sun 17 Sep 2017 at 22:43:38 +0300, Erkki Ruohtula wrote: > > Tried it. It does not help. In any case xsm gets run in > > the same enviroment as .xsession would be run, and the latter > > has no trouble starting twm and xterm. > > A pity. > > > I wonder if everyone using X11 on NetBSD does it by setting > > up .xsession before enabling xdm, so the default session > > never got tested... > > That was indeed what I effectively did on my most recent install... just > copied over my home directory. I think I did notice the same thing as > you did, but I didn't spend any time investigating it. > > > Erkki > -Olaf. > -- > ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- Wayland: Those who don't understand X > \X/ rhialto/at/falu.nl -- are condemned to reinvent it. Poorly. >
