Re: gettytab and autologin

[Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios%cs.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:10:30PM +0200, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
> hello list,
> 
> i've enabled autologin in gettytab which works well.
> When I'm automatically logged in as a user and start a WM (icewm) via
> startx and later logout to the shell, then the shell gets stuck. This
> does only happen if I'm autologged in as a user. With root everything
> works fine.
> 
> I found out, that if I just su down to root and come back, I can also
> properly log out of icewm.
> It also suffices, if I just "login -f myusername" or "su myusername"
> and then startx and logout.
> 
> Any ideas how to workaround or fix this ?

Just to be sure it's not icewm specific: try a different window manager.
E.g., twm, please.

        -is