On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Kendrick Vargas wrote:
> Hi, it seems that I cannot run xlock at all on sun's from within fvwm2. I
> don't understand why I'm having this problem. I don't have it under IRIX,
> Linux/XFree86 or Linux/AccelX. I also checked and seem to have the same
...
> login to X in safe mode (type in passwd and press F1, get only an xterm
> and nothing else, no WM), and if I then run my .xsession manually, I don't
> get the problem. If I do that, I can run xlock as I normally would from
> within fvwm2.
>
Aha - missing environment ...
> 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
>
I reckon it'll be LOGNAME not set properly - try
LOGNAME=$USER export LOGNAME
in your .xsession. If it works, persuade your sysadmin to put it in
the default Xsession.
Regards, Peter Billam
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Received on Thu Mar 20 1997 - 15:46:11 GMT