Re: .xinitrc doesn't work, .xsessionrc does! (was ... Re: startx vs. xdm)

2012-07-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:14:54AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: Have you tried not having your .xssesionrc at all? Does it provide the same result to you as with .xsessionrc? Yes, except for: -8 .xsessionrc -8 /home/chrisb/background.sh xterm -fn 10x20 -xrm

Re: startx vs. xdm

2012-07-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:52:58AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: I use startx, and only have an .xsessionrc file. I know it is read because of the xterm settings. Resources, whether for xterm, urxvt, or similar, usually are not configured into .xinitrc, neither .xsession (I never used

Re: .xinitrc doesn't work, .xsessionrc does! (was ... Re: startx vs. xdm)

2012-07-31 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:14:54AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: Have you tried not having your .xssesionrc at all? Does it provide the same result to you as with .xsessionrc? Yes, except for: ... IOW, it

Re (2): startx vs. xdm

2012-07-31 Thread peasthope
From: Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 07:40:12 +1200 ... it says .xsessionrc is read by .xsession, yet I have no .xsession file. But from here: root@tal:~# file /usr/bin/startx /usr/bin/startx: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable which points to

.xinitrc doesn't work, .xsessionrc does! (was ... Re: startx vs. xdm)

2012-07-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:52:58AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Chris Bannister I use startx, and only have an .xsessionrc file. I know it is read because of the xterm settings. Resources, whether for xterm, urxvt, or similar, usually are not configured

Re: .xinitrc doesn't work, .xsessionrc does! (was ... Re: startx vs. xdm)

2012-07-29 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:52:58AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Chris Bannister I use startx, and only have an .xsessionrc file. I know it is read because of the xterm

Re: .xinitrc doesn't work, .xsessionrc does! (was ... Re: startx vs. xdm)

2012-07-29 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Javier Vasquez j.e.vasque...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:52:58AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Chris Bannister I use startx,

Re: startx vs. xdm

2012-07-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:31:51PM -0400, John L. Cunningham wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 09:20:02AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: In the process of trying to make xmonad work I've found that startx fails whereas xdm succeeds. The logs are here. startx fails:

Re: startx vs. xdm

2012-07-28 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:31:51PM -0400, John L. Cunningham wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 09:20:02AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: In the process of trying to make xmonad work I've found that startx fails

startx vs. xdm

2012-07-27 Thread peasthope
In the process of trying to make xmonad work I've found that startx fails whereas xdm succeeds. The logs are here. startx fails: http://carnot.yi.org/Xorg.0.log.old xdm succeeds: http://carnot.yi.org/Xorg.0.log My summary of the differences follows. Any insights to direct further studies?

Re: startx vs. xdm

2012-07-27 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 09:20:02AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: In the process of trying to make xmonad work I've found that startx fails whereas xdm succeeds. The logs are here. startx fails: http://carnot.yi.org/Xorg.0.log.old xdm succeeds: http://carnot.yi.org/Xorg.0.log My summary

Re (2): startx vs. xdm

2012-07-27 Thread peasthope
From: John L. Cunningham djoh...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:31:51 -0400 I would only note that startx and xdm don't necessarily look at the same startup files. xdm looks for .xsession and startx looks for .xinitrc. /home/peter/.xsession is non-existent and /home/peter/.xinitrc

Re: startx VS xdm?

2003-07-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:02:28PM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote: * Steve Lamb Unless you are exceptionally tight on memory (which KDE suggests you're not) I'd say just install kdm. It is based on xdm but you can configure it nicely from

Re: startx VS xdm?

2003-07-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:36:31PM +0100, ian silvester wrote: Okay, so I've installed kdm by: apt-get install kdm which all went smoothly, and has set kdm as my default display manager. However, at the end of the boot process I see:

startx VS xdm?

2003-07-17 Thread Ian Silvester
Hi, I have a Woody install, using the 2.4.18bf24 kernel. I had been booting to a console from which to login (I commented the entry in /etc/X11default- display-manager to prevent the GUI auto-starting). I then used startx to start a GUI. This quite happily booted KDE. I now wish to auto-boot

Re: startx VS xdm?

2003-07-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:17:54 +0100 Ian Silvester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best way to make the runlevel-based X boot to go to KDE? Should I tweak xdm's config (if so which file where?) or should I install kdm instead via apt? Unless you are exceptionally tight on memory

Re: startx VS xdm?

2003-07-17 Thread Jon Haugsand
* Steve Lamb Unless you are exceptionally tight on memory (which KDE suggests you're not) I'd say just install kdm. It is based on xdm but you can configure it nicely from within KDE itself. Can you also do this from, say, fvwm? -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo,

Re: startx VS xdm?

2003-07-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On 17 Jul 2003 21:02:28 +0200 Jon Haugsand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you also do this from, say, fvwm? Erm, technically yes since it is just a configuration option off the KDE control panel. However kdm's configuration (/etc/kdex/kdm where x is the version of KDE) is fairly

Re: startx VS xdm?

2003-07-17 Thread ian silvester
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:22:50 -0700, Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:17:54 +0100 Ian Silvester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best way to make the runlevel-based X boot to go to KDE? Should I tweak xdm's config (if so which file where?) or should I install kdm

Re: startx VS xdm?

2003-07-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:36:31 +0100 ian silvester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and yet the GUI does not boot? I've left gdm and xdm installed, but I don't think they can get in the way - what am I missing folks? What's on your 6th (or 7th) console? Any error messages? -- Steve C.