In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
