From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: auto start WM on second VT Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 20:22:44 -0700 Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20050408201833.01f54bb8@celine> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20050408184004.01f561c8@celine> <5.1.0.14.1.20050408102653.02048aa8@celine> <5.1.0.14.1.20050408102653.02048aa8@celine> <5.1.0.14.1.20050408184004.01f561c8@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: References: <5.1.0.14.1.20050408184004.01f561c8@celine> <5.1.0.14.1.20050408102653.02048aa8@celine> <5.1.0.14.1.20050408102653.02048aa8@celine> <5.1.0.14.1.20050408184004.01f561c8@celine> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org At 09:38 PM 4/8/2005 -0500, James Miller wrote: [...] >>A standard Debian menu of this sort includes a WindowManagers section >>that lets you select among the available WMs. > >Yep, standard Debian unstable, installed starting with a netinst CD. The >menu program is installed, and menus are getting updated. Despite this, I >see no WindowManagers section anywhere: maybe the packagers for Gnome >thought no one would ever want to use any other WM after trying Gnome :) ? >Don't see that anywhere--not among the Gnome menu items, nor under the >"Debian" section. Hmmmph! Now I really wish I could see what you're seeing. I don't run Gnome, but I''ve always had the WindowManagers choice in any WM I did run ... mainly blackbox and KDE. In Gnome, it would probably be the next-to-last item in the Debian section. It's where the choice to exit from X is. >>Or, you might approach this by creating a dedicated userid to run this >>special WM setup, and use its .xsession file to set things up. Then just >>log into that userid in the second xdm, and you're set to go. > >I don't see any .xsession file in my user's directory either. In fact, I >created my own .xinitrc file so I could get ion3 on logging in in a >console and running startx -- :1. I couldn't find anything like the file >you mention or .xinitrc when I originally started setting this all up. I may have misled you here; sorry. None of my X-using users has either of these files by default either. They are the ones you create if you want user-spefici customizations, not stock items created from a template the way that, for example, .bash_profile and .bashrc are. [...] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs