On Sunday 13 December 2009 20:22:03 Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > 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. > > Well, I'm a KDE guy myself so this may just be completely wrong here. I > put my X stuff in /etc/conf.d/xdm and it tells what I am using for my > GUI. Again, I don't have Fluxbox and I understand it works differently > so this may be as far off as Pluto.
Thanks Dale, The /etc/conf.d/xdm file, which arrived after the /etc/rc.conf days, is indeed used to set up the Display Manager, but not the Window Manager/Display Environment X session. The latter was being defined in rc.conf, but this I think is no longer the case - hence I am asking here. -- Regards, Mick
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