Re: how to set default wm? - I made it !

["Benjamin F. Zhou" <zhoub@fisci.com>]

Hi Nico,

thank you sooo.......oo much for the hint !
although it didnt work directly after these three steps, by following your
track, I found the key is in the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc. in
its last section are these lines:

twm &                                               <---the default wm
setup during install
xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &         <--- the clock at upper right conner
xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &    <------- the stupid large window
xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &       <------- the one I could use
exec xterm -geometry 80x60+0+0 -name login     <-- the one with login name

I replaced these with

blackbox &
exec xterm -geometry 80x20+0+0 -name login

and it works !

Linux and you all are great !  I have learned so much from all your
replies.

Ben



Nicola Girardi wrote:

> On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:54:20AM +0100, Benjamin F. Zhou wrote:
> | [...]
>
> I'm going to teach you how to set your favourite window manager (which
> seems to be blackbox).
>
> (1) Reset all the changes you've made to Xsession.
>
> (2) rm -r /etc/X11/window-managers
>
> (3) ln -sf `which blackbox` /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager
>
> Then launch startx.
> If it doesn't work, check if you have .xinitrc or .xsession in your
> home directory. If so, erase them and try again to start X.
>
> If it still doesn't work, reply to me and I'll try to fix the problem.
> For me it works out this way...
>
> --
> Nick