At Wed, 01 Dec 2004 09:55:31 -0500, Adrian Mariano wrote: > > I'm in the process of upgrading an old Linux system. On the old system, > the window manager was > started by a .xinitrc file which started up xbiff, xclock, some xterms, > etc, and then finally ran the window > manager. > > I just installed a Debian linux version, and as far as I can tell, there > is no script analagous to .xinitrc that > gets executed unless I disable the automatic window manager selection in > the session manager. The > session manager has a system where you pick your window manager off a > menu and it runs it. > It only runs .xsession if it can't find your window manager. It would > appear, therefore, that the only > way to get startup applications run is to have fvwm start them. >
I think you need to use ~/.xsession instead of .xinitrc (not sure) and then you choose default window manager and it should run /etc/X11/Xsession which looks for ~/.xsession. Works for me with wdm at least IIRC also KDM but haven't used it for a while. > When I look at the fvwm manual I find a description of InitFunction, > which sounds like the right > thing. And the description says "These functions may be customized in a > user's /.fvwm2rc/ file via > the *AddToFunc* command (described later) to start up modules, xterms, > or whatever you'd like to > have started by fvwm.." Sounds great. But I'm using a session manager > and a little farther down > I find "If fvwm is run under a session manager, functions > *SessionInitFunction* and * > SessionRestartFunction* are executed instead of InitFunction and > RestartFunction." > Ok. Whatever. But then I encounter the vague warning: > > Generally it is a bad idea to start xterms or other applications in > "Session*" functions > > And that's it. There is no further explanation of either why it's bad > idea or how, in fact, I'm > supposed to start up my xterms if I can't use SessionInitFunction to do > it. > > Note: please CC me when you reply as I am not on the list. > > > -- > Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. > To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a > message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
