on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 03:57:45PM -0700, Paul Mackinney (paul@mackinney.net) wrote:
> Karsten M. Self muttered:
> > on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 05:01:28PM -0700, Eric G. Miller (egm2@jps.net) wrote:
> > > On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 06:52:57PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 05:39:38PM -0400, Bob Koss wrote:
> > As I point out in my "X Display Manager Repair & Removel Pre-Shrunk
> > Ultra-Mini HOWTO",
> And my wife thinks I'm a geek! Karsten, you are awfully quick with
> those URLs and I sincerely appreciate it.
;-)
> Here's the newbie answer to the original question, which I have lived:
>
> 1. Yes, deleting the xdm symlinks in /etc/rc2.d is perfectly
> acceptable. When you want to run X, just run
>
> su -c 'init 3'
Alternatively:
$ su -c '/etc/init.d/xdm start'
> You'll be prompted for the root password and then xdm will start. The
> neat thing about this is that there's a good chance that xdm will get
> you into the desired window manager whereas running startx as a
> regular user will not. Life is wonderful
> 2. A week later, after getting awfully darn tired of su-ing all the
> time, figure out how to configure your local .xsession file for the
> desired window manager, deinstall xdm and just use startx.
Heh!
Here's an example for you:
xsetbg -solid black # background color.
xscreensaver -nosplash & # screensaver
xset +dpms # enable screen blanking
xset dpms 600 900 1200 # set it.
xset fp+ unix/:7101 # fonts are good
# X resources
for file in $( find /etc/X11/Xresources -maxdepth 1 -type f );
do
xrdb -merge $file
done
unset file # keep a clean environment
exec wmaker # Window manager is last client.
> Note that the biggest problem you're likely to encounter is that all of
> the man pages and docs will refer to your local .xsession file, which
> probably won't exist until you build it manually.
ln .xsession .xinitrc.
In general, the files can be the same. .xsession is used by xdm,
.xinitrc is used by startx.
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