Re: DEFAULT WINDOW MANAGER
El Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:04:11PM +0200, Claudio Bley escribió:
> On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 12:28, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:18:53PM +1000, Nick Hastings wrote:
> > > > I have tried including "exec /usr/bin/wmaker" in ~/.xinitrc ,
> > hmmm not sure if the .xinitrc is called by default from the
> > .xsession.... try to call the .xinitrc from your .xsession...
>
> See 'man startx'. It basically says that .xinitrc is only used by xinit
> (which is called by startx but not from xdm, gdm etc.).
>
> "Note that in the Debian system, what many people traditionally
> put in the .xinitrc file should go in .xsession instead"
>
I used to use startx and not xdm, so .xinitrc used to work. Now I was using xdm.
Anyway, update-alternatives does what I wanted and now I know that I should touch .xsession if I am not at Debian. Thanks
> > > This will let you set the default wm for your machine. Or just for you,
> > > try putting "exec wmaker" in ~/.xsession or ~/.Xclients
> > uhm what's the 'exec' for?? wmaker is surely allready executable, isn't
> > it? what's the puropose of adding an exec? at least mine works without
> > that....
>
> exec is a Shell builtin command. 'man sh' says:
>
> exec [-cl] [-a name] [command [arguments]]
> If command is specified, it replaces the shell. No new
> process is created.
>
> So, .xinitrc resp. .xsession is executed by sh and hence you have a shell
> process running which is unused but uses some of your memory. If you run
> "exec x-window-manager" in these files the shell gets replaced by the
> window manager process which is going to be a bit more efficient
> (resource-wise).
>
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