On 14 February 2010 02:26, <[email protected]> wrote: > Thomas Adam <[email protected]> writes: > >> For instance, unless I run >> gnome-settings-daemon, I get to use .mailcap just fine. > > You mentioning gnome-settings-daemon reminded me to bring this > up again. > > I don't have the old emails but a while back I asked about what it > took to get the pulseaudio daemon running when starting with a > .xinitrc from runlevel 3. > > For a while I just started the pulse daemon and some > chmods in /dev/snd to get everything to work. > > Then I found that permissions on my USB devices weren't right either. > > Then I ran across what I believe was the crux of the problem. > I believe the various flavors of xdm start the WM using > ck-xinit-session. > > I no longer have to start pulseaudio from my .xinitrc, but I did > have to put some ugly logic at the front of my .xinitrc: > > if [ -f /usr/bin/ck-xinit-session ] ; then > if [ "$1" = "startsess" ] ; then > shift > else > exec ck-xinit-session /home/dane/.xinitrc startsess > fi > fi > > I start a number of applications from .xinitrc and this seemed like > the simplest way to get everything running inside the environment > created by ck-xinit-session.
I've added this to the FvwmWiki. Thanks! -- Thomas Adam
