RE: Logging into Gnome via xdm

[Conrad Sabatier <conrads home com>]

On 24-Aug-2001 Conrad Sabatier wrote:
> When logging into Gnome (gnome-session) via xdm, I'm experiencing a delay of
> a minute or two as the gnome-login-check program makes repeated attempts to
> connect to port 16001 locally (no service to be found on that port).

OK, as I suspected, it had to do with esound.

Srange that it would be trying to connect to esound before the daemon was
started up, though.

Anyway, putting:

esd &
exec gnome-session

in my ~/.session fixes the problem.

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Conrad Sabatier
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