Hello all,

I've been trying to get GDM running on my system; I don't
really need it, but it'd be better than needing to run startx
each time I log in.

What I get with GDM is quite strange, and actually I got similar
problems with xdm. GDM starts up fine, and I get to the login
screen. But the login window is quite wrong: first of all, I don't
see the dude in horns and trident in the logo box, instead it is
empty. No face images appear on the face browser (I enabled it).
Text renders nicely to menu bar and I see the welcome label.
But once I start writing my login name to the edit box, I only
see a series of vertical bars for each character I type; the
same goes for the password. And if I browse the menus, they
first render to the screen, but when I exit the menu or browse
another menu, the previous menu stays still rendered on the
screen (i.e. the menu is not closed although I exit it).

Well, I still can log in. But once GNOME starts up the same
problems continue: no images are rendered at all, nowhere. Text
apparaently renders nicely to the menus. But I haven't tried
examining further there, instead I just quit GNOME and killed
gdm.

Using gnome via startx works without trouble.

Also, I get no error messages from GDM on console (or from
any other GNOME/GTK component).

I did not do any further configuration of GDM, just pkg_add gdm
and the ran gdm as root from console. I had then change the
permissions in one of the start up scripts to be executable
by all, but that was that.

I am using GDM 2.2.0 (2.0.whatever had the same problems),
GNOME 1.4 and GTK+ 1.2.10 etc.


Oh, yeah, the xdm side of the things: I did not configure xdm
either, just ran it from console. I saw the login screen and
entered my stuff (the text rendered here good, BTW). The thing
started up (some default?) twm session. When I clicked left mouse
button on the root window twm menu opened: but all I saw were the
borders of the menu. No nice green filling with the menu item
texts was seen. Once I dragged mouse over the menu it rendered
each item "on demand".


So, what is wrong with X renderings on the system?

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