Re: Strange problem

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 08:00:11PM +0200, areversat wrote:
> Hi I've got a weird problem with gdm : it doesn't ask me if i want to
> keep the session as default session when I don't use my usual desktop
> manager... So I4d like to know 
> 1) if you would know the cause of this
> 2) where the default session is stored (the one started when calling
> /etc/gdm/Xsession default

Which version of gdm?  Which distro?

The default version for gdm is whatever is in your .dmrc file.  If it doesn't
ask you it's probably because it doesn't find your home directory safe to
write (permissions wrong on your home dir or on ~/.dmrc, wrong file owner
or some such)  It should complain to syslog (/var/log/messages) about what
went wrong.

It won't start Xsession with 'default' arg unless the default session is
named 'default'.

Though this all depends on which version of gdm you are running.  Older
versions worked differently.

George

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