Window Managers, (was Re: [ILUG] DVD woes)

[lbedford at wbtsystems.com]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 09:47:11AM +0000, Diarmaid O'Loughlin wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, John P. Looney wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 09:49:22PM +0000, dollar at skynet.ie mentioned:
> > > How do you make enlightment your window manager after upgrading to 3.9.18?
> > > I want gnome back!!! switchdesk wont work.
> > 
> >  Stick "exec gnome-session" in the bottom of your ~/.xinitrc
> 
> No I got that (that's what swichdesk does I figured out last night.) 
> 
> As far as I know Enlightenment makes the app's windows and then gnome
> makes them look good. One's a window manager the other is a window 
> something else. I under stand that. 
> 
> What has happened is that after installing X 3.9.18 the window manager has
> changed to TWM or something. I want to know what file I edit to get  
> enlightenment to be the default WM. I could use the GUI Gnome config
> tool's to set it (just thought of that now) but I would prefer if I knew
> which file to edit.
> 
> This is really a case of RTFM. But have you seen the manual for X!!!
Which part of it? I think the Xlib stuff comes to one book all on it's
own <g>

Anyway, what you're looking for is the init files for X:
Most people start X in one of two ways:
1) startx
This uses .xinitrc in your homedirectory, or the system xinitrc file (locate xinitrc)

2) xdm
This is easier (coz I know it better). It uses .xsession in your home directory,
and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession if that doesn't exist (not true really, it
reads /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession always and then execs $HOME/.xsession if it
exists and is exectutable). So if you're using xdm, then edit one of those two
files. If you're using gdm/kdm, then you'll need to RTFM, as they have
their own ways of setting the environment up. (You can change the location
of the Xsession file from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config, dunno
if you can change the location of the config file (there's probably a -f flag :))

HTH

L.
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