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On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:56:19 +0000 (GMT)
"J.I. Evers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> -What exactly does startx do?
it starts your default desktop
essentialy what it dows is start the X server and run ~/.xinitrc
if ~/.xinitrc does not exist it starts /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
in mandrake all /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc does is run another script
/etc/X11/Xsession Xsession starts the firsttime wizard if its the first
time to run X otherwise it starts the desktop mentioned in ~/.desktop or
the default system desktop /etc/sysconfig/desktop
if all this fails it falls down to some hardcoded defaults (like trying
icewm, then trying twm, then just opening a terminal etc.)
of course these scripts do more (like set your default browser) you'll
need to read if you really want to know the gory details.
> -How else can I start the x server?
you could use xinit
xinit starts an X server and runs the command you pass it (or ~/.xinitrc
if none exist).
xinit /usr/bin/pekwm
starts an X server with pekwm as the session manager, if pekwm quits the
X server closed.
or you could do it the very hard way and start the X server on your own
X
then attach some client t it,
rxvt -display :0
or something like that, I never tried it.
> -What might be the problem with kdeinit?
> -How would I start a different window manager (gnome, pekwm, icewm,
> ...)?-What does startkde, startgnome and starticewm do?
well best way to start wm's Mandrake knows about (the system knows about
a wm if it has an entry in /etc/X11/wmsession.d/) is to install the
package Xtart then run
Xtart
however you could use the xinit command to start any X session, you
could pass it a wm or even just a single X client (I run wine this way).
AFAIK startkde and startgnome are scripts that setup ad start the DE's
for you you can use these with xinit
xinit `which startkde`
cheers,
Alaa
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