Re: [e-users] Environment settings

[Jochen <cyc...@gm...>]

On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 15:42 +0100, Steve Jones wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Saturday 18 October 2008 13:45:10 Steve Jones wrote:
> >> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > 
> >> I can use the exact same desktop file from either entrance or gdm. If I
> >> log in via gdm, my environment is fine. From entrance, it's broken. I've
> >> found that gdm has its own path settings in gdm.conf, which matches the
> >> path I get through ssh. I haven't found the equivalent for entrance -
> >> any idea where it might be, or is there somewhere else that my path
> >> should be set up?
> > 
> > Let's do a quick check first to see if you have an entrance problem, or 
> > something related to your user account. If you create a new user and log in 
> > to e17 using entrance for that new user, what happens to your environment?
> > 
> > If the environment is still faulty, the problem likely lies with entrance. If 
> > it's correct, you have a problem with your shell startup files in your home 
> > directory (~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc
> > 
> 
> OK. With a new user (completely empty home directory), I have a busted
> environment - all attempts to build fail.
> 
> If I do the same thing using gdm, everything's fine - I'd say we've got
> an entrance problem. What's the next step?
> 
I'd suspect that it is actually not an entrance problem but an XDM
configuration problem. AFAIK entrance uses the XDM configuration. I
recall that I had something similar and I had to sort through the XDM
configuration in /etc/X11/XDM IIRC.

Cheers
Jochen

> By the way, thanks for your continued help with this.
> 
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