This weekend I try to make one hurd box work with one DM autostart, and what I want to say is that you will never know whether it will work or not if we don't provide one workable image to user.
What I expected:
wdm as display manager,
window maker as windows manager.
But it is not work for me, after some work, it works, I want to check whether some action is needed or overworked, please help me to check and fix these problem in package if needed.
1. adjust /etc/X11/wdm/Xservers
change the last line from :0 local /usr/bin/X :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp
to :0 local /usr/bin/X :0 -nolisten tcp
vt7 was no needed and may cause wdm start x failed, right?
(it is not follow /usr/bin/X -help document, but work for my debian 7.4)
2. reorder the /etc/rc2.d/ script.
The wdm boot before hurd-console for default install.
As X need hurd-console be started first, I make wdm boot after hurd-console, this was needed, right?
I also make ssh boot after hurd-console, I know it work all the time, but I want to know whether this is better?
And, the script order like this(don't care for uncontinuous number, just for keeping the order):
README S01motd S01rsyslog S02cron S02dbus S02rsync S04bootlogs S05hurd-console S10ssh S12wdm S14rc.local S16rmnologin
3. one question not related to this topic
What's the formal way to change the script order? the order return to default after I do dpk-reconfig X11-common
4. for dpk-reconfig X11-common, the Console Users Only be the right one , right? but I remember someone advice me to choose Anyone?
Hope you enjoy my work!
Thanks
Cong Zhang