On Monday 20 August 2001 13:52, Dave Sherman wrote: > At 11:48 AM 08/20/2001 -0500, you wrote: > > > http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~civileme > > > > > > Download the file Xtart > > > >[etc.] > > > >I wonder -- is this something I should try? I posted several messages > >some time ago about having lost the default LM login screen (with the > >cartoon penguins) and with it the ability to use window managers > >other than KDE. > > Did you create a .xinitrc file in your home directory? In this file you > should have a single line: > exec some_window_manager > > where some-window_manager is the binary name ('blackbox', 'as' for > AfterStep, etc.). > > Now, when you startx, this file is used to start your chosen wm. This > worked for me, as long as the > wm was installed on my system. > > Dave Xtart checks the window managers assigned valid menus on your system and offers you a text menu of them. It does not use .xinitrc. It does not use chksession, and it does not use .Xauthority. It is a simple tool to give you access to all your wms from Console. It reads only the files in the directory /etc/X11/wmsession.d/ and does its own variant of chksession. Civileme ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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