On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 12:06:40 -0500, Jon Pennington wrote:
>The preferred method is to use ~/.xsession, which is very similar in format (I have
>not found an exception, but I'm sure they exist) to ~/.xinitrc. ~/.xinitrc is only
>called when you call xinit manually (from startx or another similar wrapper), whereas
>most if not all graphical login managers (XDM, KDM, GDM, WDM) source .xsession.
I'm not sure what you mean by "source .xsession". Putting commands
into this file doesn't work on my Mandrake 7.0/BlackBox system. I've
tried it. That's how I had all the frustration. After
you select the window manager, I'm pretty sure that the only thing that
happens is that it executes the command given in the window-managers
file, which (before I modified it) was the ../blackbox command. If it
were taking info from .xsession, then my editing window-managers would
surely not work. Something, somewhere, has to have the last say, and
on my machine, it seems to be window-managers.
- Richard.
