Not really, gdm does more than start X and log users in. I don't know
how much more it does but i think it is part of the auto-mount process
and managing permissions inside X
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Steve Holmes<
steve@holmesgrown.com> wrote:
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> I built a new "normal" user and tried it there and got the same
> results as I do with my original normal user.
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> Now I need to provide some more details because I found a solution to
> the problem so it seems. I usually like to get into gnome by typing
> 'startx' from a native text console. When I do it this way, I get the
> problems I've been writing about for the past several days. Now if I
> use 'gdm' by starting it up from a root console and then login with
> the normal user, I get automount functionality back. I thought gnome
> would basically operate the same way once someone is logged in
> regardless of how they got there.
>
> Like I said before, My knowledge of gnome internal is next to none. so
> don't know much about really getting everything out of that
> environment yet. It does seem strange to me that normal users have to
> have logged in via gdm to get this automount stuff to work but if root
> loggs in via startx then automount works strait away.
>
> Sound confusing enough?
>
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Stephen
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