Re: xdm starts local server
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 03:20:30PM +0200, joost@pc47.mpn.cp.philips.com wrote:
>
> Why you get different behaviour from xdm and start might be explained by
> this: There's a script /etc/X11/Xsession that claims to be run by both
> xdm and xinit (to which startx is a wrapper.) The script seems to look
> for ~/.xsession only though. Maybe it isn't run after all from xinit on
> Debian systems. That means that the comments in the file are misleading.
There must be something more than this. Earlier this week i switched to XDM
from startx. Now when i turn off xdm and startx instead i do not have any
window manager running (i'm certain thath i didn't change anything in any of
below mentioned files; almost the only thing that spring to my mind is upgrade
of xbase to latest 2.0 <<from frozen>>)
>
> Anyway, the /etc/X11/Xsession script exec's either (and in this order of
> prevalence):
> - ~/.xsession if it exists;
> - whatever windowmanager is listed first in /etc/X11/windowmanagers if
> that file exists;
> - twm (which always exists when /etc/X11/Xsession exists.)
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