Hi All, I got mixed up with the various .fdi files in a previous thread, thinking that this is what killed my X GUI. However, it seems that the problem is most likely related to rc.conf. Has this file been done away with as far as Gentoo is concerned? I say this because I discovered that running dispatch.conf after sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.13 substitutes /etc/rc.conf with an empty file. Mind you, even if the file contains the previous information about XSESSION xdm or slim do not seem to use it now.
If this is the case, am I right to assume that the files in /etc/X11/Sessions/* are not used anymore and the solution is to set up a local ~/.xinitrc file for launching the desired WM? I am muddled up because I have forever it seems used /etc/rc.conf to manage the XSESSION which xdm would pick from /etc/X11/Sessions/* to start different WMs. Right now I have copied the contents of /etc/X11/Sessions/fluxbox into ~/.xinitrc, added slim's /usr/share/doc/slim-1.3.1-r4/xinitrc.sample.bz2 and that's how I can get fluxbox to come up. What is the default Gentoo way these days of bringing up an X session? PS. Is there a clever way of killing slim? It seems that /etc/init.d/xdm stop/zap won't kill slim or the X session that it starts. I need to manually run kill -9 to make it give up. -- Regards, Mick
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