On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:10:16AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:
| There are a bunch of Gnome packages intalled, but startx still
| gives us TWM.
I saw this oddity the other day when I was fiddling with my startup
scripts. What I learned is :
In gdm you can select 'Gnome', 'Debian' or 'Xsession'. Gnome runs
~/.gnomerc during startup. Both Debian and Xsession run ~/.xsession,
iff it is executable. The Xsession session will run 'xsm' (and thus
twm/fvwm2) as a fallback if ~/.xsession can't be executed. (I don't
know about Debian)
(now for the confusing part)
If you choose Xsession or Debian, have both ~/.gnomerc and
~/.xsession, and ~/.xsession runs 'gnome-session', then when you "log
out" gnome starts a second time :-). (at least some of those times I
had 'gnome-session' run from ~/.gnomerc as well)
If you experience that mystery again, there's some places to look.
HTH,
-D
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