On 24Jan2007 16:51, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | I want to start one application after logging in from GDM, and nothing | else - I don't want any of the normal desktop environment. I've been | testing with a few different apps, such as gnome-terminal, but so far my | attempts have failed. | | I'm getting an error that says "no profile for user test found", and | then I get logged out again. | | What I've done so far is create a .xsession file, changed the | permissions to 700, and added the following to the file: | | exec gnome-terminal & | | I know that won't give me any gnome settings, etc., but I'm just playing | around at the moment. All I want to do for now is get gnome-terminal | started. Get rid of the "&". The duration of the .xsession script is the duration of your login. Normally you would kick off a few things in the background with "&" (terminals, browsers, whatever) and finally start a window manager _without_ an "&". In this way the script is waiting for the window manager - quitting the window manager logs you out. So you want to start a single app _instead_ of a window manager. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Get rid of internal customers. - NeilW in a SysAdmin Team Fundamentals meeting
