Re: Fw: Re: FVWM: Beginners how to
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:21:20PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:10:18PM +0100, Chris G wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:47:19PM +0200, Jes?s Guerrero wrote: On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:41:56 +0200 Jes?s Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: exec $HOME/.xsession.$DISPLAY Ok, forget my comment about that exec line. It is a redirector. I didn't even read it, it was my fault. Still, the rest of things I said are valid. Your xinitrc is strange. Not to mention that if the system is set to run at run level 5 (which tends to be the default nowadays) it won't even look at .initrc. Umm, this depends entirely on the distribution. Debian, for instance doesn't distinguish between what's started in runlevels 2-5 inclusive, they're essentially all the same. OK, it's the scripts 'underneath' xdm/kdm/wdm/gdm. The distributions I have played with have all ignored the .xinitrc when at run level 5. Whatever, depending on distribution, there's a fair chance that .xinitrc isn't being looked at. -- Chris Green
Re: Fw: Re: FVWM: Beginners how to
On 02/10/2007, Chris G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:21:20PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:10:18PM +0100, Chris G wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:47:19PM +0200, Jes?s Guerrero wrote: On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:41:56 +0200 Jes?s Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: exec $HOME/.xsession.$DISPLAY Ok, forget my comment about that exec line. It is a redirector. I didn't even read it, it was my fault. Still, the rest of things I said are valid. Your xinitrc is strange. Not to mention that if the system is set to run at run level 5 (which tends to be the default nowadays) it won't even look at .initrc. Umm, this depends entirely on the distribution. Debian, for instance doesn't distinguish between what's started in runlevels 2-5 inclusive, they're essentially all the same. OK, it's the scripts 'underneath' xdm/kdm/wdm/gdm. The distributions I have played with have all ignored the .xinitrc when at run level 5. Whatever, depending on distribution, there's a fair chance that .xinitrc isn't being looked at. http://fvwmwiki.bu-web.de/HashFvwmIrcFaq?highlight=%28CategoryIRC%29#head-5fd61e65135d57c37be671b7cf0970711e6cb591 -- Thomas Adam
Re: Fw: Re: FVWM: Beginners how to
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Chris G wrote: Whatever, depending on distribution, there's a fair chance that .xinitrc isn't being looked at. Sorry, I've not archived the beginning of the thread, but if I remember correctly the original poster was asking something about using fvwm remotely under VNC. That's nothing to do with .xinitrc or alike. All what you have to do is to provide in the directory ~/.vnc a file called xstartup. A minimal version of such file could just be #!/bin/sh xsetroot -solid blue fvwm and then do all your desktop configuration in ~/.fvwm/.fvwmrc I arranged this for a retired colleague which uses VNC from a remote site to have a desktop running here so that he can read journals from our server. If one wishes one can put other applications in xstartup, but I find easier and more elegant to let fvwm do it itself. -- --- Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) For more info : http://www.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/personal.html --- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ http://arc.pasp.de/
Fw: Re: FVWM: Beginners how to
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:41:56 +0200 Jesús Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: exec $HOME/.xsession.$DISPLAY Ok, forget my comment about that exec line. It is a redirector. I didn't even read it, it was my fault. Still, the rest of things I said are valid. Your xinitrc is strange. -- Jesús Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jesús Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fw: Re: FVWM: Beginners how to
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:47:19PM +0200, Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:41:56 +0200 Jesús Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: exec $HOME/.xsession.$DISPLAY Ok, forget my comment about that exec line. It is a redirector. I didn't even read it, it was my fault. Still, the rest of things I said are valid. Your xinitrc is strange. Not to mention that if the system is set to run at run level 5 (which tends to be the default nowadays) it won't even look at .initrc. -- Chris Green
Re: Fw: Re: FVWM: Beginners how to
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:10:18PM +0100, Chris G wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:47:19PM +0200, Jes?s Guerrero wrote: On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:41:56 +0200 Jes?s Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: exec $HOME/.xsession.$DISPLAY Ok, forget my comment about that exec line. It is a redirector. I didn't even read it, it was my fault. Still, the rest of things I said are valid. Your xinitrc is strange. Not to mention that if the system is set to run at run level 5 (which tends to be the default nowadays) it won't even look at .initrc. Umm, this depends entirely on the distribution. Debian, for instance doesn't distinguish between what's started in runlevels 2-5 inclusive, they're essentially all the same. -- Thomas Adam -- He wants you back, he screams into the night air, like a fireman going through a window that has no fire. -- Mike Myers, This Poem Sucks.
Re: Fw: Re: FVWM: Beginners how to
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:21:20 +0100 Thomas Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:10:18PM +0100, Chris G wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:47:19PM +0200, Jes?s Guerrero wrote: On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:41:56 +0200 Jes?s Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: exec $HOME/.xsession.$DISPLAY Ok, forget my comment about that exec line. It is a redirector. I didn't even read it, it was my fault. Still, the rest of things I said are valid. Your xinitrc is strange. Not to mention that if the system is set to run at run level 5 (which tends to be the default nowadays) it won't even look at .initrc. Umm, this depends entirely on the distribution. Debian, for instance doesn't distinguish between what's started in runlevels 2-5 inclusive, they're essentially all the same. I think he means if you run k/gdm, since they completely ignore those settings allowing you to dynamically choose your wm and some other things. That is, or course, not the same that to run in runlevel 5, though it *can* be depending on your configuration. Runlevel5 doesn't necessarily imply that. In Gentoo it is completely up to the user what services to run on a given runlevel. In fact, runlevels from 3 to 5 comes all labeled like default, and they are equivalent, unless you effectively create a different label for runlevel 5, assign that in inittab, and add some services to that new runlevel. And here you are free to chose what to put into that runlevel. You can easily put kdm in runlevel 3 and, let's say, qingy in funlevel 5 if that makes you happy. -- Jesús Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED]
