On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:17:25PM +0200, Malte Cornils wrote: > when choosing a window manager like twm with kdm or wdm (maybe also others, > but not xdm), this window manager is executed without taking into account the > user .xsession. > > The user .xsession is only taken into account when using the default "window > manager". > > By the way, some of the more complex window managers/desktop environments have > their own mechanisms for startup scripts, like KDE's Autostart folder and > GNOME's .gnomerc (IIRC). > > Now it would be quite helpful if this information could be found in the man > page of Xsession or the xfree86-common FAQ, preferably both (attached are the > relevant portions of both) > > I had a look at both but did not find an appropriate wording for that; maybe > that's because I'm not a native (English :)) speaker. Perhaps someone on this > list finds something good. > > If nothing comes up, I'll give it another try myself. Should I generate a > patch (my reference is the man page/FAQ from woody). > > Ideas and comments? Please review the Xsession handling (and Xsession(5) manpage) in version 4.2.1-11 of the Debian packages. A bug with respect to session handling has been found and fixed, and the documentation improved, since the version of the XFree86 packages in woody. -- G. Branden Robinson | You should try building some of the Debian GNU/Linux | stuff in main that is branden@debian.org | modern...turning on -Wall is like http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | turning on the pain. -- James Troup
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