>>>>> Kendrick Vargas writes:
> My sysadmin claims he debugged a similar problem a while back and
> said that if the USER env isn't properly set in the .xsession[...]
He's right, except his memory has failed him a bit. It's LOGNAME, not
USER that's the problem. I have my .profile (which I source in my
.xsession) set up like this:
[...Lots of irrelevant stuff...]
LOGNAME=${USER-`whoami`}
USER=${USER-$LOGNAME}
export LOGNAME USER
[...Lots more irrelevant stuff...]
This way $LOGNAME and $USER are both guranteed to be set ($USER is
needed for some other programs and while one can generally expect
login to set it, I'm paranoid about these things :-)
If you want to get the latest xlock, it's available from ftp.x.org
somewhere in the contrib area. I think applications, but it might be
utilities.
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Email: dsg_at_mitre.org
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Received on Thu Mar 20 1997 - 11:12:22 GMT