On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 03:34:37PM +0100, Brendan Halpin wrote:
> raoul duke <dr_gonzo at redbrick.dcu.ie> writes:
>> > i'm no expert here, but why don't you make $STARTUP constantly point to
> > $HOME/.xsession and then inside ~/.xsession put sawfish and all your other
> > startup commands? i think you have to put a & after each command
>> I'd rather understand and correctly tweak the Debian "way", rather
> than klugde together a homebrew setup.
>> Is it that if sawfish is set at the window manager, kdm
> intentionally leaves the user-level initialisation to it, thus
> leaving ~/.xsession untouched?
>
are you using KDM? afaik kdm has a sessions file somewhere (/etc/kde3 or
/etc/X11/Xservers or /etc/X11/Xsessions ?). you could add a script to the
file (or maybe through the kdm configurator?) which basically starts up
sawfish and anything else you want.
i can't help out much more 'cause my linux pc is at the docters so there's
no way of me knowing what exactly i'm talking about.
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