Quoting Michael Siegel (mi...@malbolge.net): > What is being chosen there, is actually a profile for the graphical > environment. So, neither "window manager" nor "desktop environment" > really fit. You could say "profile", but "session" seems to be the > (de-facto) standard term. Also, it makes some sense if you think about > what session management is.
In this case, SLiM _literally means_ sessions, because (by default configuration of /etc/slim.conf, it is parsing /usr/share/xsessions/ , which by convention is where X11 session managers store their state data. It's not that 'session' is a _standard_ term; it's that it's what SLiM happens to be talking about in, in its default configuration. Luckily, if you aren't running X11 session managers and/or prefer more-direct control over what SLiM offers users at login, you can edit /etc/slim.conf to do that (commenting out the 'sessiondir' line, for starters). Steve may or may not have noticed that I also did answer his other question: For a user to make a system's choice of window manager 'sticky' in SLiM, he/she need only edit ~/.xinitrc . Thus, each user gets to declare a preference. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng