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kdm just restarts when I try to log in. I believe this is because I don't have an .xsession file in my $Home directory. What is the contents of .xsession suppost to be? I found something somewhere saying that you need a line 'startkde' and that the permissions need to be set to 755, but just this alone isn't working for me. I think I might need something else in the .xsession file.
you might need to do
exec startkde
in your .xsession or/and .xinitrc files in your home directory.
Does it happen only with a particular user or it affects all the users icluding root, if so take a look at /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc file, you'll track it down to /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession file, and you'll have to fidle with it.
is that it? That's all you have in kdmrc? Boo...
This is mine, but I use RH
[Desktop0]
BackgroundMode=Wallpaper
BlendBalance=100
BlendMode=NoBlending
ChangeInterval=60
Color1=88,116,152
Color2=88,116,152
CurrentWallpaper=0
LastChange=0
MultiWallpaperMode=NoMulti
Pattern=
Program=
ReverseBlending=false
Wallpaper=none
WallpaperList=
WallpaperMode=Scaled
I've stripped out comments though, there are numerous options that can be turned on and off, look if you have all the mentioned files in /etc/X11/xdm/ directory.
I replaced the paths to the kdm directory with the paths to the xdm directory and everything is working fine now. I guess there was just something wrong with the ones in the kdm directory.
Here's Xsession from the kdm directory:
#! /bin/sh
# Xsession - run as user
# redirect errors to a file in user's home directory if we can
for errfile in "$HOME/.xsession-errors" "${TMPDIR-/tmp}/xses-$USER" "/tmp/xses-$USER"
do
if ( cp /dev/null "$errfile" 2> /dev/null )
then
chmod 600 "$errfile"
exec > "$errfile" 2>&1
break
fi
done
test -f $HOME/.xprofile && . $HOME/.xprofile
sess="$1"
shift
case "$sess" in
failsafe)
exec xterm -geometry 80x24-0-0 $*
;;
""|default)
exec $HOME/.xsession $*
;;
esac
# start windowmanager
type "$sess" >/dev/null 2>&1 && exec "$sess" $*
type "start$sess" >/dev/null 2>&1 && exec "start$sess" $*
type "$sess-session" >/dev/null 2>&1 && exec "$sess-session" $*
sess=`echo "$sess" | tr A-Z a-z`
type "$sess" >/dev/null 2>&1 && exec "$sess" $*
type "start$sess" >/dev/null 2>&1 && exec "start$sess" $*
type "$sess-session" >/dev/null 2>&1 && exec "$sess-session" $*
# windowmanager not found, tell user
exec xmessage -center -buttons OK:0 -default OK "Sorry, $sess not found."
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