Re: Cannot login via xdm after fresh install

[Erkki Ruohtula <erkkiruohtula%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 17 Sep 2017 20:24:41 +0200
Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost> wrote:
> On Sun 17 Sep 2017 at 18:37:45 +0300, Erkki Ruohtula wrote:
> > twm
> > smproxy
> > xterm
> > 
> > but apparently it fails to do so. (All these programs do exist
> > in the installation).  
> 
> Maybe at the time that xsm tries to execute those programs, they are
> not in $PATH? In that case, specifying full paths might help. Just a
> guess...

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.

I wonder if everyone using X11 on NetBSD does it by setting
up .xsession before enabling xdm, so the default session
never got tested...

Erkki

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