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Re: changing window managers



On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 06:56:00PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> John L Fjellstad <john-debian@fjellstad.org> writes:
> 
> > .xsession or .xinitrc 
> > Not sure what the difference between those two files are.
> 
> .xinitrc is invoked by "xinit".  "startx" invokes "xinit".
> 
> .xsession is read by xdm.  (And I think by other foodm programs, too,
> such as kdm, gdm.)

With no ?dm installed, with no ~/.initrc file, and with one word 
("fvwm") in .xsession, things work for me (using startx).  

-- 
David Jardine

"Running Debian GNU/Linux and
loving every minute of it."  -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895)



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