Re: changing window managers
In article <[🔎] 431F0161.8070004@cyberspaceroad.com> you wrote:
> Larry Fletcher on 06/09/05 21:19, wrote:
> > Okay. Now I see there is a difference between a session
> > manager and a window manager. Apparently some window managers
> > have session managers and need them to run properly and some
> > window managers don't use them. The problem was I installed
> > a window manager that didn't install a session manager and
> > since the old session manager was still installed the new
> > window manager wouldn't run.
> >
> > I also found it interesting that ~/.xinitrc takes precedence
> > over ~/.xsession, and x-session-manager takes precedence over
> > x-window-manager. So it doesn't work to use both ~/.xsession
> > and ~/.xinitrc. The best option seems to be to put the session
> > manager in ~/.xsession and not use ~/.xinitrc. And if there is
> > no session manager, to put the window manager in ~/.xsession.
> > Either that or learn how to configure x-session-manager and
> > x-window-manager.
> larry,
> are you still using startx to launch the desktop? If so, how long does
> it take?
I don't use a desktop.
It takes about 3 seconds for startx to launch icewm using
icewm-session in either ~/.xsession or x-session-manager.
Larry
> I used to use metacity (default with sarge) and it took 10 seconds
> maybe, and then I tried using others and it now takes 5 minutes.
> It's the window manager which causes it to hang for so long, but I can't
> work out what the problem is.
> Adam
I tried posting a similar message to gmane.linux.debian.user as
suggested in another thread, but it didn't seem to work. So if
the list gets 2 copies of this message that's the reason.
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