Re: No xterm window?!
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 09:27:15PM +0200, Sammy wrote:
> So here are my questions:
> 1- Where (in which file) was X-Windows instructed to "exec twm"? I don't
> have a ~/.xsession file.
There is a default session. I'm not sure exactly which distribution you
are using, but my comments are based on Debian 3.1 (Sarge). The default
session is /etc/X11/Xsession. This ends up running the code in
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/, which includes a check (in order) for the initial
programs of /usr/bin/x-session-manager, /usr/bin/x-window-manager, or
/usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator. These are hooked up through the alternatives
system to appropriate binaries. I have gnome installed, so they are
respectively gnome-session, metacity, and gnome-terminal. If you don't
have anything but the base X packages, they probably point to nothing,
twm, and xterm respectively. If you're running etch, the details may
have changed with the switch to Xorg, but the basics are probably similar.
> 2- Can I work the menus without the mouse in X-Windows?
Probably not without some configuration. The default setup for twm is
pretty simple.
Brad Boyer
flar@allandria.com
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