Nguyen, Cuong K. wrote: > Thanks for you reply, but I have some (maybe very stupid because Debian is > quite new to me) questions: > > 1. I do not have fvwm2 (not found when type fvwm2 --help as root)
As I said in my note fvwm2 is what *I* use but was only furnished as an example. The one you wanted to use for gnome was gnome-session. Or if x-session-manager, an "alternative" symlink that points to the installed default window manager, then use it. update-alternatives --display x-session-manager > 2. my default windows manager is gnome, how should it be startkde there? I listed several possibilities. Select the one that you want. > so far, here is what I can do with .xsession > > #!/bin/sh > > exec x-window-manager & > exec gnome-session This has several problems. For one, 'exec' *overlays* and replaces the currently running shell with the new process. Therefore following commands are never run. The execution of the shell stops at the 'exec'. Therefore putting it in the background really does not make sense. exec x-session-manager Plus you have lost the --login option. If bash is your login shell then use that as the script interpreter. #!/bin/bash --login Doing this means that bash will load the login environment files /etc/profile, .bash_profile, .profile, etc. Otherwise it won't. This usually manifests itself as PATH not being set from your environment files. Putting that all together gets you: #!/bin/bash --login exec x-session-manager Make sure it is executable or the the X startup will simply feed it to the 'sh' and won't run the desired shell as a login shell. > and it works. But one problem arises: when I logged in, and if I wanted to > log out, it does NOT log out immediately, but after at least five minutes > later. Why is that? I guess my .xsession file has problem, but do not know > how to fix. Try the corrected version first and then see if the problem persists. If it was related to the incorrect attempt then it might be fixed by using a corrected version of the file. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
