Re: Cannot login with GDM

[walters 159 osu edu]

On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 11:13:55AM -0700, David R. Hampton wrote:
> colin> I ran into this problem a while ago; the fix is to slightly
> colin> modify your $prefix/etc/gnomerc:
> 
> I tried that but the gnomerc file doesn't seem to be executed.  I put
> the commands you suggested into the Sessions/Default file (where they
> were executed) and received the same 'not authorized' error message as
> before.  Moving these commands to the PreSession/Default file to
> guarantee that they run as root yields the error message 'Invalid
> MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key'.

Unless you're logging into X as root, you don't want xhost commands to
be executed as root; they should be executed as the user running the X
session.  

I don't think $prefix/etc/gdm/Sessions/Default should be a separate file; it 
should be a symlink to $prefix/etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome.  

Do you have a ~/.gnomerc?  That will be
executed instead of etc/gnomerc if it exists.

-- 
Colin Walters
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