On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Nadav Har'El wrote:
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012, Aaron Sloman wrote about "Re: [ctwm] [ANNOUNCE] CTWM 3.8.1
released":
After logging in I either work without graphics or (usually) use the
'startx' command and get my .xinitrc file to launch ctwm after doing
some preparation, including swapping caps-lock and ctrl, starting
pulseaudio, and launching a couple of xterm windows.
Are you using runlevel 3 and manually running startx just because you want
to run ctwm and not the Gnome or KDE window managers? If that is the reason,
you don't have to. You can use a graphical login screen just like
everyone else :-)
In the good old days, when you logged in using XDM (the graphical login
screen), if you had a ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc file (it varied on different
setups) it would get used instead of the system default and you could choose
your own window manager and everything else.
Unfortunately, since Fedora 9 was released in 2008, Fedora suddenly decided
that changing your window manager is too geeky (or who knows what), and
your ~/.xinitrc and ~/.xsession are ignored by default,
I think you can create your own /usr/share/xsessions/ctwm.desktop which
should be picked up by both KDM adn GDM (not sure about todays XDM) and
add it as an option of different desktop environments you can boot into.
But I don't use Fedora and I tend to use KDM, so I can use the old ctwm
script I have in /etc/X11/Sessions/ which don't look much more than
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/ctwm
Let see how long it takes before we see 3.8.1 in Gentoo portage, did
notify them about the version bump.
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//Aho
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