On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 03:49:05PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > I think I finally got this working,
> > after half a year of trying.
>
> Can you summerize the difference between configuration/commands
> for old X (without dbus, hal) and new X (with dbus, hal)? We do
> have some diskless stations with 6.x and I'd like to test 8.x
> and modern X. Thanks.
no difference. On 6.4 alpha as soon as I put
dbus-launch --exit-with-session mwm in $HOME/.xsession
I couldn't get anything from mwm, i.e. there was no reaction to
any mouse clicks. I would get xdm login window, login fine,
but then mwm wouldn't react to mouse clicks. Typically I use the
right button to bring up a menu from where I launch xterm.
But neither button would show anything.
Adding xterm, or any other program to .xsession after the dbus
line didn't work either. But there were several dbus processes
launched.
In short, my impression was that mwm (or fvwm) didn't work well with dbus,
and some session initialisation process would never finish.
On 8.0 ia64 I replicated everything as it was on 6.4 alpha,
and it worked.
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Anton Shterenlikht
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