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PostPosted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 11:50 am    Post subject: SLiM doesn't start my .xsession Reply with quote

(Sorry for poor English :D )
I 've installed SLiM and I want to use it to start awesome.I followed http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SLiM#Per-user_default_session_using_bundled_session_files
Code:
senge@Senge-Laptop ~ $ ls -l ~/.xsession
lrwxrwxrwx 1 senge senge 25 Aug  6 16:02 /home/senge/.xsession -> /etc/X11/Sessions/awesome

All other config files is default(I guess :D )

But after I successfully login, awesome was not up.It just give me a xterm window, no more.

It seems that slim execute xterm as a fallback.slim cannot find my session file.If I run awesome in the xterm window, the WM can start up.So I think It just because slim cannot find my session, not related to awesome.

I 've tried add consolekit support to slim, not work.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 1:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I look through /usr/share/slim/Xsession, something strange.
Code:
if [ "x$command" = "x" ]; then
  # no default specified, check if Xsession will complete
  # and if not then assign XSESSION to command
  if [ -x "$HOME/.xsession" ] || [ -x "$HOME/.Xclients" ] || [ -x /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients ] || [ -x /etc/X11/Xclients ]; then
    command="Xsession"
  else
    command=$XSESSION
  fi
fi

If slim found .xsession, should it execute the session? what does "Xsession" mean?

FULL /usr/share/slim/Xsession
Code:
#!/bin/sh
#
# Slim login manager Xsession script
#

command="$@"
# this will go into slim.log along with all other echo's
# good for debugging where things go wrong
echo "$0: Beginning session setup..."

# First read /etc/profile and .profile
test -f /etc/profile && . /etc/profile
test -f "$HOME/.profile" && . "$HOME/.profile"
# Second read /etc/xprofile and .xprofile for X specific setup
test -f /etc/xprofile && . /etc/xprofile
test -f "$HOME/.xprofile" && . "$HOME/.xprofile"

# wrap possible arguments to determine whether to treat special or not
if [ "x$command" = "xcustom" ] || [ "x$command" = "xCustom" ] || [ "x$command" = "xdefault" ] || [ "x$command" = "xDefault" ]; then
  command="Xsession"
fi
if [ "x$command" = "x" ]; then
  # no default specified, check if Xsession will complete
  # and if not then assign XSESSION to command
  if [ -x "$HOME/.xsession" ] || [ -x "$HOME/.Xclients" ] || [ -x /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients ] || [ -x /etc/X11/Xclients ]; then
    command="Xsession"
  else
    command=$XSESSION
  fi
fi

# most of this is from /etc/X11/chooser.sh
sessionscript=""
if [ -n "${command}" ]; then
  # find a match for $command in /etc/X11/Sessions
  for x in /etc/X11/Sessions/* ; do
    if [ "`echo ${x##*/} | awk '{ print toupper($1) }'`" = "`echo ${command} | awk '{ print toupper($1) }'`" ]; then
      sessionscript=${x}
      break
    fi
  done
  if [ -n "${sessionscript}" ]; then
    if [ -x "${sessionscript}" ]; then
      command="${sessionscript}"
    else
      command="/bin/sh ${sessionscript}"
    fi
  else

    # find an executable for $command
    x=""
    y=""

    for x in "${command}" "`echo ${command} | awk '{ print toupper($1) }'`" "`echo ${command} | awk '{ print tolower($1) }'`"
    do
   echo $x
      # Fall through ...
      if [ -x "`which ${x} 2>/dev/null`" ]; then
   y="`which ${x} 2>/dev/null`"
   break
      fi
    done
    # note , if the command could not be found then $command will be empty
    command="$y"
    unset x
    unset y
  fi
fi

# call xrdb and xmodmap and such, since $command is not a session script
if [ -z "${sessionscript}" ]; then
  userresources="$HOME/.Xresources"
  usermodmap="$HOME/.Xmodmap"
  userxkbmap="$HOME/.Xkbmap"

  sysresources=/etc/X11/Xresources
  sysmodmap=/etc/X11/Xmodmap
  sysxkbmap=/etc/X11/Xkbmap

  rh6sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/Xresources
  rh6sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/Xmodmap

  # merge in defaults
  if [ -f "$rh6sysresources" ]; then
    xrdb -merge "$rh6sysresources"
  fi

  if [ -f "$sysresources" ]; then
    xrdb -merge "$sysresources"
  fi

  if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then
    xrdb -merge "$userresources"
  fi

  # merge in keymaps
  if [ -f "$sysxkbmap" ]; then
    setxkbmap `cat "$sysxkbmap"`
    XKB_IN_USE=yes
  fi

  if [ -f "$userxkbmap" ]; then
    setxkbmap `cat "$userxkbmap"`
    XKB_IN_USE=yes
  fi

  #
  # Eeek, this seems like too much magic here
  #
  if [ -z "$XKB_IN_USE" -a ! -L /etc/X11/X ]; then
    if grep '^exec.*/Xsun' /etc/X11/X > /dev/null 2>&1 && [ -f /etc/X11/XF86Config ]; then
      xkbsymbols=`sed -n -e 's/^[     ]*XkbSymbols[   ]*"\(.*\)".*$/\1/p' /etc/X11/XF86Config`
      if [ -n "$xkbsymbols" ]; then
        setxkbmap -symbols "$xkbsymbols"
        XKB_IN_USE=yes
      fi
    fi
  fi

  # xkb and xmodmap don't play nice together
  if [ -z "$XKB_IN_USE" ]; then
    if [ -f "$rh6sysmodmap" ]; then
      xmodmap "$rh6sysmodmap"
    fi

    if [ -f "$sysmodmap" ]; then
      xmodmap "$sysmodmap"
    fi

    if [ -f "$usermodmap" ]; then
      xmodmap "$usermodmap"
    fi
  fi

  unset XKB_IN_USE
fi
unset sessionscript

# start failsafe session
if [ -z "${command}" ]; then
  echo "$0: Failed to find a command to start the session, so starting a failsafe xterm."
  exec xterm -geometry 80x24+0+0
fi

# run all system xinitrc shell scripts which will update command
if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
  for i in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/* ; do
    if [ -x "$i" ]; then
      . "$i"
    fi
  done
  unset i
fi

echo "$0: Setup done, will execute: $command"
exec $command

# vim:ts=4
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 21, 2013 6:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

To help us better resolve your problem, please post your:

cat ~/.xinitrc
cat /etc/slim.conf
rc-update show

If possible, use wgetpaste ('emerge wgetpaste').
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 21, 2013 8:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

CleanTestr wrote:
To help us better resolve your problem, please post your:

cat ~/.xinitrc
cat /etc/slim.conf
rc-update show

If possible, use wgetpaste ('emerge wgetpaste').

Thanks for reply!
I solve this problem by using ~/.xinitrc instead of ~/.xsession. Configuration has changed. But I am curious about the reason why I failed to start xsession. So I am trying to show situation several weeks ago.

First, There is no ~.xinitrc.

slim.conf
Code:
# Path, X server and arguments (if needed)
# Note: -xauth $authfile is automatically appended
default_path        /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
default_xserver     /usr/bin/X
xserver_arguments   -nolisten tcp -br -deferglyphs 16 vt07

# Commands for halt, login, etc.
halt_cmd            /sbin/shutdown -h now
reboot_cmd          /sbin/shutdown -r now
console_cmd         /usr/bin/xterm -C -fg white -bg black +sb -T "Console login" -e /bin/sh -c "/bin/cat /etc/issue; exec /bin/login"
#suspend_cmd        /usr/sbin/suspend

# Full path to the xauth binary
xauth_path         /usr/bin/xauth

# Xauth file for server
authfile           /var/run/slim.auth


# Activate numlock when slim starts. Valid values: on|off
numlock             off

# Hide the mouse cursor (note: does not work with some WMs).
# Valid values: true|false
# hidecursor          false

# This command is executed after a succesful login.
# you can place the %session and %theme variables
# to handle launching of specific commands in .xinitrc
# depending of chosen session and slim theme
#
# NOTE: if your system does not have bash you need
# to adjust the command according to your preferred shell,
# i.e. for freebsd use:
# login_cmd           exec /bin/sh - ~/.xinitrc %session
#login_cmd           exec /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc
login_cmd           exec /bin/bash -login /usr/share/slim/Xsession %session

# Commands executed when starting and exiting a session.
# They can be used for registering a X11 session with
# sessreg. You can use the %user variable
#
# sessionstart_cmd   some command
# sessionstop_cmd   some command
sessionstart_cmd   /usr/bin/sessreg -a -l :0.0 %user
sessionstop_cmd     /usr/bin/sessreg -d -l :0.0 %user

# Start in daemon mode. Valid values: yes | no
# Note that this can be overriden by the command line
# options "-d" and "-nodaemon"
daemon   yes

# Available sessions:
# The current chosen session name replaces %session in the login_cmd
# above, so your login command can handle different sessions.
# If no session is chosen (via F1), %session will be an empty string.
# see the xinitrc.sample file shipped with slim sources
#sessions            xfce4,icewm-session,wmaker,blackbox
# Alternatively, read available sessions from a directory:
sessiondir           /etc/X11/Sessions

# Executed when pressing F11 (requires media-gfx/imagemagick for import)
# Alternative is media-gfx/scrot. See Gentoo bug 252241 for more info.
screenshot_cmd      import -window root /slim.png
#screenshot_cmd      scrot /root/slim.png

# welcome message. Available variables: %host, %domain
welcome_msg         Welcome to %host

# Session message. Prepended to the session name when pressing F1
# session_msg         Session:

# shutdown / reboot messages
shutdown_msg       The system is halting...
reboot_msg         The system is rebooting...

# default user, leave blank or remove this line
# for avoid pre-loading the username.
#default_user        simone

# Focus the password field on start when default_user is set
# Set to "yes" to enable this feature
#focus_password      no

# Automatically login the default user (without entering
# the password. Set to "yes" to enable this feature
#auto_login          no


# current theme, use comma separated list to specify a set to
# randomly choose from
current_theme       custom

# Lock file, /etc/init.d/xdm expects slim.pid
lockfile            /var/run/slim.pid

# Log file
logfile             /var/log/slim.log

rc-update show
Code:
                acpid | boot                         
            alsasound | boot                         
             bootmisc | boot                         
                devfs |                       sysinit
                dmesg |                       sysinit
                 fsck | boot                         
              goagent |      default                 
             hostname | boot                         
              hwclock | boot                         
              keymaps | boot                         
            killprocs |              shutdown       
                local |      default                 
           localmount | boot                         
              modules | boot                         
             mount-ro |              shutdown       
                 mtab | boot                         
               net.lo | boot                         
            net.wlan0 | boot                         
             nfsmount |      default                 
               procfs | boot                         
                redis |      default                 
                 root | boot                         
            savecache |              shutdown       
                 swap | boot                         
            swapfiles | boot                         
               sysctl | boot                         
                sysfs |                       sysinit
         termencoding | boot                         
       tmpfiles.setup | boot                         
                 udev |                       sysinit
           udev-mount |                       sysinit
              urandom | boot                         
                  xdm |      default                 

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 12:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry, I only know a method using .xinitrc. Perhaps someone else can help.
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