Adrian Mariano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm in the process of upgrading an old Linux system. On the old system, > the window manager was > started by a .xinitrc file which started up xbiff, xclock, some xterms, > etc, and then finally ran the window > manager. > > I just installed a Debian linux version, and as far as I can tell, there > is no script analagous to .xinitrc that > gets executed unless I disable the automatic window manager selection in > the session manager. The > session manager has a system where you pick your window manager off a > menu and it runs it. > It only runs .xsession if it can't find your window manager. It would > appear, therefore, that the only > way to get startup applications run is to have fvwm start them.
I hate session managers. Do man inittab. Change from runlevel 5 to runlevel 3 and your life will be greatly simplified. -- Dan Espen E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
