RE: Default Window Manager
X is currently being started by xdm I believe.
The system start twm as the current default WM and I am not getting any
error messages just not the WM I want.
I didn't have any .xinitrc files on the system so after reading the other
message I created one even though it didn't seem to do anything. Currently
my .xinitrc file simply says 'echo gnome-session'.
Aaron
-----Original Message-----
From: kmself@ix.netcom.com [mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 4:42 PM
To: Debian-List
Subject: Re: Default Window Manager
on Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 05:01:37PM -0700, Aaron (verdesoft@verdesoft.com)
wrote:
> I just tried to follow these directions and still couldn't get gnome to
> start as the default WM.
>
> '''''
> Just install them. In your .xinitrc add the command to start whichever
> envinronment you want to run. I.e. 'echo gnome-session > ~/.xinitrc'
> will make gnome your session. Replace 'gnome-session' with 'kde2' for
> KDE. Deleting your .xinitrc will cause startx to revert to the system
> default, which I assume in this case is Blackbox.
> '''''
>
> Can someone give me some direction to go in.
How are you starting X?
What window manager are you getting?
What error messages are you getting, if X isn't starting up?
Post your .xinitrc.
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