On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:19:32PM -0700, Larry Fletcher wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:10:11AM -0700, Larry Fletcher wrote: > > > After looking around some more I found out the x-session-manager works > > > for startx, but it's not updated when new window managers are > > > installed. The x-session-manager updates: > > > /etc/alternatives/@x-session-manager > > > Why should the session manager symlink be changed by a window manager? > > > > The x-window-manager is updated when new window managers are > > > installed, so maybe @x-session-manager should link to > > > @x-window-manager? > > > No - x-session-manager should point to a session manager, and > > x-window-manager to a window manager, respectively. > > > If you have a ~/.xsession file, you may have specified a window manager > > in it. > > I didn't have a ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc file. > > > Otherwise, odds are the symlink from /usr/bin/x-window-manager is > > being used. > > Okay. Now I see there is a difference between a session > manager and a window manager. Apparently some window managers > have session managers and need them to run properly and some > window managers don't use them. The problem was I installed > a window manager that didn't install a session manager and > since the old session manager was still installed the new > window manager wouldn't run. > > I also found it interesting that ~/.xinitrc takes precedence > over ~/.xsession, and x-session-manager takes precedence over > x-window-manager. So it doesn't work to use both ~/.xsession > and ~/.xinitrc. The best option seems to be to put the session > manager in ~/.xsession and not use ~/.xinitrc. And if there is > no session manager, to put the window manager in ~/.xsession. > Either that or learn how to configure x-session-manager and > x-window-manager. > > Larry >
Sorry if the question is stupid, but: What is a session manager, and how does it get involved? THX -- Joachim Fahnenmüller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
