En faite je crois avoir trouvé une piste, mais mon manque de connaissance en Unix m'empeche d'avancer. Je pense que le problème vient de /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc :
#!/bin/sh
# Copyright (C) 1999 - 2004 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. This
# copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, modify,
# copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions of the
# GNU General Public License version 2.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
# Mandatorily source xinitrc-common, which is common code shared between the
# Xsession and xinitrc scripts which has been factored out to avoid duplication
. /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common
# The user may have their own clients they want to run. If they don't,
# fall back to system defaults.
if [ -f $HOME/.Xclients ]; then
exec $DBUS_LAUNCH $HOME/.Xclients || \
exec $HOME/.Xclients
elif [ -f /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients ]; then
exec $DBUS_LAUNCH /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients || \
exec /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
else
# failsafe settings. Although we should never get here
# (we provide fallbacks in Xclients as well) it can't hurt.
xclock -geometry 100x100-5+5 &
xterm -geometry 80x50-50+150 &
if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/twm ]; then
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/twm
fi
fi
Est ce qu'il y a quelquechose qui vous choque dans ce script?