On Wed, January 30, 2019 8:02 pm, John Ankarström wrote: > Hi, > > I just got OpenBSD installed on my new laptop, and so far, it works great. > But since I applied the latest X11 patch, I can no longer use startx to > launch X11, unless I do it as root, which probably isnâ**t a good idea. > Seems like I have to use xenodm. > > The thing is, xenodm is so complicated in comparison to a simple .xinitrc > + startx. There are so many files I need to set up that I hardly know > where to begin. > > I donâ**t want a login screen, I donâ**t want X11 to launch at startup. I > just want to start X manually from a simple .xinitrc. Surely I canâ**t be > alone. > > Any ideas or tips? > > Best regards > John >
It's not really that complicated. The bare minimum is to copy your .xinitrc to .xsession and then just run xenodm on demand with doas. All the configs already exist in /etc/X11/xenodm. Nothing requires you to run it at startup. Here's what I've done: Copy your .xinitrc to .xsession Copy (or modify in place) /etc/X11/xenodm/xenodm-config to $HOME Edit xenodm-config and add DisplayManager*autoLogin: yourusername Comment out the call to Xsetup so you don't get the xconsole window !DisplayManager._0.setup: /etc/X11/xenodm/Xsetup_0 Then you can alias it to run it on demand. Alias to startx if you want. alias xenodm='doas xenodm -config /home/myusername/xenodm-config' Only thing I never figured out is how to make X and xenodm shutdown when I exit my window manager.
