Start only one program at login

[Cameron Simpson]

On 02Feb2007 12:24, khemera lin <lin.kh at wicam.com.kh> wrote:
| I tried to make the setting apply globally by editing the
| file /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession file by putting the sames two lines:
| 
| #####
| metacity --sm-disable

You need a trailing "&" here. But that is not your problem.

| exec firefox
| #####
| 
| But it did not work. It gives me this error:
| "Cannot start the session due to some internal error."
| 
| In my case, i would like any user to login to my system and can only use
| firefox. Could someone please help me to fix it?

Modify it like this:

  exec >/tmp/session.out.$$ 2>&1
  set -x
  metacity --sm-disable &
  exec firefox

Let it fail. Then:

  cd /tmp
  ls -ltr session.out.*

Examine the most recent one. It may contain error messages which clarify
the problem.

Cheers,
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> DoD#743
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