Adrian Mariano <adrian_at_mitre.org> writes:
> I'm in the process of upgrading an old Linux system. On the old system,
> the window manager was
> started by a .xinitrc file which started up xbiff, xclock, some xterms,
> etc, and then finally ran the window
> manager.
>
> I just installed a Debian linux version, and as far as I can tell, there
> is no script analagous to .xinitrc that
> gets executed unless I disable the automatic window manager selection in
> the session manager. The
> session manager has a system where you pick your window manager off a
> menu and it runs it.
> It only runs .xsession if it can't find your window manager. It would
> appear, therefore, that the only
> way to get startup applications run is to have fvwm start them.
I hate session managers.
Do man inittab.
Change from runlevel 5 to runlevel 3 and your life will be
greatly simplified.
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Dan Espen E-mail: dane_at_mk.telcordia.com
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Received on Wed Dec 01 2004 - 09:17:39 GMT