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From: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: How do I get xdm to run "." files?
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Date: 29 Jan 89 23:01:33 GMT
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An invaluable tool in debugging your ".xsession" file is to look in the
error log file that xdm leaves in .../X/lib/xdm/xdm-errors.

The most common error I have noticed when converting users to use xdm is
to have an .xsession file that uses x tools (e.g., xterm) without
setting the path to contain .../X/bin.

(BTW, is the most conventional name ".xsession" or ".Xsession" or is
this a policy matter on which the X consortium refuses to decide? :-)

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Guido van Rossum, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam
guido@cwi.nl or mcvax!guido or guido%cwi.nl@uunet.uu.net
Hackers' motto: "If all else fails, read the Unix kernel source."