I'm running fvwm2 as my wm on two fedora 7 installations. Currently
I'm running it by setting the runlevel to 3 and then, after logging
in, I run startx manually which executes fvwm from .xinitrc.
What would be the advantages (if any) of changing the runlevel to 5
and getting the (default) gnome desktop to run fvmw2 as its window
manager?
As I see it the advantages of my current method are:-
It's relatively simple.
If X fails for some reason then I'm quite likely to see the error
message and I also get a working command line to fix it from.
It's "lightweight" in use of resources.
The advantages of running from gdm (or whatever) in runlevel 5 are:-
It's more "streamlined" to start up (though this, for me anyway,
is a trivial advantage).
It's the more common way of doing things so getting help can
sometimes be easier.
Gnome services running in the background (are there any?).
It's the last item in each list that I'm asking about really. Is
there any significant difference in resource usage when running fvwm2
from .xinitrc in runlevel 3 compared with running it from gdm in
runlevel 5? ... and does Gnome run anything useful for me if I start
using runlevel 5 rather than runlevel 3?
(OK, I know I'm mixing the use of runlevel with what's really
different, starting using gdm rather than startx, but I think it's
fairly clear what I'm on about)
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Chris Green
