.xsession with gdm

[William Yardley]

So I enabled GDM, rather than logging in from console (I'm using
Windowmaker as my window manager, and I'm not using the Gnome stuff at
all).

I had this in my .xinitrc and .xsession:

xset b off
xmodmap -e 'keycode 115 = Multi_key'
xscreensaver &
exec /usr/bin/wmaker

however gdm doesn't seem to follow this (I did manage to switch the
session to use windowmaker, but the screensaver doesn't seem to get
started, and remapping the windows key to multi_key doesn't seem to be
working anymore).

Any ideas? Should I just switch to xdm?

w

[Philip Prindeville]

This is a known issue with Gdm, and we're thinking about a solution
to it in 2.13.0.5 or later...

-Philip


William Yardley wrote:

> So I enabled GDM, rather than logging in from console (I'm using
> Windowmaker as my window manager, and I'm not using the Gnome stuff at
> all).
>
> I had this in my .xinitrc and .xsession:
>
> xset b off
> xmodmap -e 'keycode 115 = Multi_key'
> xscreensaver &
> exec /usr/bin/wmaker
>
> however gdm doesn't seem to follow this (I did manage to switch the
> session to use windowmaker, but the screensaver doesn't seem to get
> started, and remapping the windows key to multi_key doesn't seem to be
> working anymore).
>
> Any ideas? Should I just switch to xdm?
>
> w
>
>   
>

[wwp]

Hello William,


On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:14:05 -0500 William Yardley <fedora-list(a)veggiechinese.net&gt;
wrote:

>  So I enabled GDM, rather than logging in from console (I'm using
>  Windowmaker as my window manager, and I'm not using the Gnome stuff at
>  all).
>  
>  I had this in my .xinitrc and .xsession:
>  
>  xset b off
>  xmodmap -e 'keycode 115 = Multi_key'
>  xscreensaver &
>  exec /usr/bin/wmaker
>  
>  however gdm doesn't seem to follow this (I did manage to switch the
>  session to use windowmaker, but the screensaver doesn't seem to get
>  started, and remapping the windows key to multi_key doesn't seem to be
>  working anymore).
>  
>  Any ideas? Should I just switch to xdm? 
Why not using the WindowMaker's startup file
(~GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart)?


Regards,

-- 
wwp