gdm sessions problems

[Terry Chan]

Yes, the answer to your xfce problem is to add the path, /opt/lunar/xfce/4.0/bin
to the PATH variable in your /etc/profile

The problem is that the above path is only set in /etc/profile.d, which is NOT
early enough for gdm, kdm, or xdm.

Terry Chan
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On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 02:57:09PM -0400, r0dzilla wrote:
> Nick Hudson, I more information about the problems I've had with gdm:
> 
> I first had problems with gdm and gnome 2.4, but the error message gnome
> spat out only said something about gnome settings daemon didn't run or
> something.
> 
> Now that I am using XFCE I'm having simular problems, but XFCE's error
> message sheds new light on the problem.
> 
> I have attached my .xsession-errors file.  It seems that xfce4-session
> can't find/execute xfce-mcs-manager.
> 
> The 'which' command can find this just fine under my user account, but
> it seems that gdm's environment does not have the proper path...
> 
> This may be the same problem I was having with gnome 2.4.
> 
> Any suggestions?