Adding xfce to Redhat login

[Devin Whalen]

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 12:13, Amarpreet Rattan wrote:
> I don't know what to say, I copied that straight from my
> /etc/X11/gdm/ and it works fine for me.
> 
> That type of error means, i think, that you are starting an xsession and
> it is not "hanging" on any command.  That is, the point of the 'exec'
> command is that the command is running and not running in the background.
> Once that process is killed, your xsession is killed (so for example if
> you start an xsession with some script like
> 
> twm &
> exec xterm
> 
> then once that xterm is killed or exited, the xsession is over).  It
> seems as though the startxfce4 is starting and then all of the sudden
> being killed.
> 
> After you try and login by clicking xfce4 and you get the error
> 
> > "Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds.  If you have not logged
> > out yourself this could mean that there is some installation problem or
> > that you may be out of diskspace....."
> 
> does your .xsession-errors file say anything useful?  probably not, it
> will probably just give the above error.  Anyways, as for
> 
> > ** Message: xfce4-panel: Running without session manager
> > ** Message: Cannot connect to session manager
> 
> This is not a problem.  Notice is says 'Message' and not 'Warning'.  I
> don't think that xfce comes with a session manager and that is all the
> message is telling you.
> 
> btw, is there a reason that you installed from source?  the rpms work
> great.  if only other big desktops were that easy to install.
> 
> amps
> 

I figured it out when I realized that you installed from rpm and I
installed from source....duh!  The line exec /usr/bin/startxfce4 
will never work because there is no startxfce4 in /usr/bin !!!  So I
changed it to exec startxfce4 and it works fine.  Thanks for all your
help on this.

Later


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