Hello,

>
> 2. With a lot of patience I built Window Maker from pkgsrc. But when I 
> log in from xdm, I just
> end up at the login screen, apparently Window Maker just exits. I 
> created ~/.xsession and
> put the line "exec wmaker" in it.
> There is, however, a file named .xsession-errors in my home directory 
> now which has the follwing
> line in it: exec: /home/krylon/.xsession: permission denied
> Does this mean I have to make .xsession executable? It isn't now, but 
> it isn't on my PC, either,
> and there it works fine.

I managed to get window maker to run - I *did* have to make .xsession 
executable,
or at least that solved the problem.

Kind regards,
Benjamin