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Re: Default Window Manager



On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 06:53:23PM -0700, Aaron wrote:
> 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'.
> 

Remove xdm or kill the start scripts.  If I remember right you wanted to
use 'startx' 
I don't think xdm reads .xinitrc.  I may be wrong about that.  I haven't
used xdm for a long time.
kent

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