On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 15:53 +0000, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:47:36PM +0000, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 09:40:10AM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > > On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:17:59 +0000 > > > Eur Ing Chris Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Can anyone here tell me how to either get gdm to run fvwm2 instead > > > > of the gnome desktop or how to change gdm to something which will > > > > do more normal things with .xinitrc and .xsession. > > > > > > I use fvwm2 all the time and never had any problem with it failing > > > to use my xinitrc or xsession files (I have .xinitrc a symlink to > > > .xsession because I can never remember which X startup software > > > uses which :-). > > > > > > Did you make your .xsession file 755 permissions? > > > > Oh, OK, maybe Fedora 6 is better behaved than I thought it would > > be and if I just copy my home .xinitrc to work I'll get what I > > want. When I have fvwm2 built I'll report back. > > > Yes, you're right, just putting the right things in .xsession gets > fvmw to start, hurrah! :-
You should be able to use your ~/.Xclients, too. Refer to the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223507
