On Wednesday 21 February 2007 13:59, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > Actually, GDM uses Xsessions and startx uses xinitrc files. > > If you look at the /etc/X11/xinitrc file, it looks for and uses the > ~/.xinitrc file if present. Otherwise, it uses the system default > of /etc/X11/chooser.sh, which uses the variable XSESSION. > > If neither of the methods works, it starts a twm session. > > Correct me if I'm wrong please.
startx's behavior is explained here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml#using_startx If you want to use a display manager, you should set DISPLAYMANAGER in /etc/conf.d/xdm. -- [email protected] mailing list
