On 8 August 2012 23:05, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On 08/08/12 05:17 PM, Keith McKenzie wrote:
>>
>> I just came across my old script for starting different WMs from the C/L.
>
>Aah..I remember that know...ran Slack years ago.
>
>Good, thanks for digging that up.
>
>Siard, in another re
On 08/08/12 05:17 PM, Keith McKenzie wrote:
I just came across my old script for starting different WMs from the C/L.
#! /bin/sh
clear;echo;echo "Menu Items"
echo;echo "1 > TWM"
echo "2 > Blackbox"
echo "3 > Ratpoison"
echo;echo "Choice: " $reply; read reply
case $reply in
1) cp initrc-twm in
Frank McCormick wrote:
> I am running 3 Linux distros with Sid as my main one. I am curious to
> know if it's possible to replace GDM with a BASH script.
It depends on what you want to do. It's possible, since bash provides
a Turing Complete language, but whether it's realistic is another matter
Frank McCormick:
> Andrei POPESCU:
> > Frank McCormick:
> > > At this point it's just plain curiousity :) Seems to me GDM,
> > > while it does a good job takes up a lot of memory (I only have a
> > > gig) to just pick a window manager. Although at this point I guess
> > > GDM does more than t
On Mi, 08 aug 12, 14:51:00, Frank McCormick wrote:
>
> At this point I am running SLIM...although I am told now it is
> unmaintained. How can that be if it's still in the repositories ?
Probably because it doesn't have any RC bugs.
> Anyway it requires a fair amount of config-ing...and much
On 08/08/12 02:34 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Vi, 03 aug 12, 10:24:03, Frank McCormick wrote:
At this point it's just plain curiousity :) Seems to me GDM,
while it does a good job takes up a lot of memory (I only have a
gig) to just pick a window manager. Although at this point I guess
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On 03/08/12 01:15 PM, Tom H wrote:
>>>
>>> Interesting stuff. You can have 3-4-5 X sessions each with a different
>>> window manager. It works when run from a TTY but I can't get it working
>>> from
>>> a terminal in an existing session, des
On 03/08/12 01:15 PM, Tom H wrote:
Interesting stuff. You can have 3-4-5 X sessions each with a different
window manager. It works when run from a TTY but I can't get it working from
a terminal in an existing session, despite what the author claims. What's
more interesting is it doesn't seem to
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On 02/08/12 04:19 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Frank McCormick
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am running 3 Linux distros with Sid as my main one. I am curious to
>>> know
>>> if it's possible to replace GDM with a BASH script.
On 2 August 2012 17:22, Frank McCormick wrote:
>
> I am running 3 Linux distros with Sid as my main one. I am curious to know
> if it's possible to replace GDM with a BASH script. The issue is complicated
> because I run 3 window managers with Sid and a similar situation with the
> other 2 distr
On Jo, 02 aug 12, 12:22:27, Frank McCormick wrote:
>
> I am running 3 Linux distros with Sid as my main one. I am curious
> to know if it's possible to replace GDM with a BASH script. The
> issue is complicated because I run 3 window managers with Sid and a
> similar situation with the other 2 d
On 02/08/12 04:19 PM, Tom H wrote:
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Frank McCormick
wrote:
I am running 3 Linux distros with Sid as my main one. I am curious to know
if it's possible to replace GDM with a BASH script. The issue is complicated
because I run 3 window managers with Sid and a simi
On 08/02/2012 03:59 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
On 02/08/12 03:00 PM, Wayne Topa wrote:
On 08/02/2012 12:33 PM, Darac Marjal wrote:
On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 12:22:27PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
I am running 3 Linux distros with Sid as my main one. I am curious
to know if it's possible to re
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Frank McCormick
wrote:
>
> I am running 3 Linux distros with Sid as my main one. I am curious to know
> if it's possible to replace GDM with a BASH script. The issue is complicated
> because I run 3 window managers with Sid and a similar situation with the
> other
On 08/02/2012 12:33 PM, Darac Marjal wrote:
On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 12:22:27PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
I am running 3 Linux distros with Sid as my main one. I am curious
to know if it's possible to replace GDM with a BASH script. The
issue is complicated because I run 3 window managers
Or you can add a command to start x and your window manager to init.d.
Regards,
Cortman
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 12:22:27PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
>>
>> I am running 3 Linux distros with Sid as my main one. I am curious
>> to know if
On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 12:22:27PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
>
> I am running 3 Linux distros with Sid as my main one. I am curious
> to know if it's possible to replace GDM with a BASH script. The
> issue is complicated because I run 3 window managers with Sid and a
> similar situation with
On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 12:22:27PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
>
> I am running 3 Linux distros with Sid as my main one. I am curious
> to know if it's possible to replace GDM with a BASH script. The
> issue is complicated because I run 3 window managers with Sid and a
> similar situation with
I am running 3 Linux distros with Sid as my main one. I am curious to
know if it's possible to replace GDM with a BASH script. The issue is
complicated because I run 3 window managers with Sid and a similar
situation with the other 2 distros. Googling the problem hasn't turned
up much of in
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