Hello Mr Huusko.

There was a bug in our gdm for a while. For about a month
I was only able to start gdm from the command line- never
from boot. Since I ran the Red Carpet update about midweek
last, it's been running from boot.

Please update from RedCarpet in "small bites." It just works
better that way.

-MSH

On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:01:41PM +0200, Arto Huusko wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> -- 
> Arto Huusko  --  WWW: http://maailma.yok.utu.fi/
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