Re: when an xterm starts, it always starts in ~/Documents
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:46:38 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:37:46 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you tried with falling into init 1 (no X server and so no KDE)
>>>>> and issue "xterm" from there?
>>>>
>>>> No X, no xterm. :(
>>>
>>> Ouch!
>>>
>>> Cannot be run without the X part? :-?
>>
>> :)
>
> Mmm, no dice?
>
> Okay, there has to be a way to run xterm with the X server running but no
> KDE env in place... Maybe from a remote ssh session.
Yes, you're right. You could use "ssh -Y ...; echo $DISPLAY; export
DISPLAY=...; xterm" but I'd make sure that KDM/KDE isn't running to
ensure that there's no interference.
My knowledge of X, WMs, and DEs is minimal so my other option would be
to log out of KDM/KDE, go to a vt, stop KDM, install fluxbox, start
fluxbox, and launch xterm to see where it starts off. There's probably
a way of starting just X and an xterm without installing fluxbox but I
tried a few days ago to start X with just "X" on a Fedora install and
the whole of GNOME came up; I didn't try anything else because I
didn't the time to do so but I'll have to take a look at "/etc/X11" to
see if there's any call to GDM there...
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