Forgot the & after the 2
Hi,
I have never used xdm, gdm or kdm. In fact I hate them. If I want to start X I
type startx. If I want to start X of another WM in another VT I type in the
terminal for example:
startx /usr/bin/gnome-session -- :2& or
startx /opt/kde/bin/startkde -- :2& or whatever
At 09:38 PM 4/8/2005 -0500, James Miller wrote:
[...]
A standard Debian menu of this sort includes a WindowManagers section
that lets you select among the available WMs.
Yep, standard Debian unstable, installed starting with a netinst CD. The
menu program is installed, and menus are getting updat
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote:
No menus? This is a Debian system, right? The Debian package manager ... the
package installation scripts, to be more exact ... should be adding menu
choices to the standard X right-click floating menu without your needing to
do anything, working ... as t
At 08:27 PM 4/8/2005 -0500, James Miller wrote:
[...]
I picked around a bit further in /etc/X11/xdm and /usr/X11R6 trying to
figure out how all this works. It's rather mind-boggling trying to puzzle
out how all the relevant files relate to one another, not to mention how
each is supposed to work
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote:
First, let's clear up a bit of terminology.
Thanks for those clarifications. They clarify both how the terminology is
used as well as what the computer is doing--much needed gap-filling
information for someone like me.
You *might* be better served by swi
At 08:24 AM 4/8/2005 -0500, James Miller wrote:
After all those complex problems with sound, let me ask for some help on
something that should be much easier to resolve. It should just be a
matter of automating something I currently do manually. This refers to the
same Debian unstable system I d
After all those complex problems with sound, let me ask for some help on
something that should be much easier to resolve. It should just be a
matter of automating something I currently do manually. This refers to the
same Debian unstable system I discussed in the sound card thread.
I've become
