Re: Compiz as default window manager
Hello, just curious: does it wok fine ? Jerome Miguel J. Jiménez wrote: Hi, right now I have metacity as default window manager and I activate compiz doing compiz --replace at gnome start... Is there a way to use compiz instead of metacity as default window manager? I mean without using compiz --replace. Thanks. By the way Ihave Debian Lenny. -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit_at_mailsnare_dot_net
Re: Compiz as default window manager
Jerome BENOIT escribió: Hello, just curious: does it wok fine ? Jerome Mmm I only encountered minor problems loading tilda (sometimes does not load correctly) and alltray does not work at all (it loads but does nothing else). -- .-. | Miguel J. Jiménez | | Programador Senior | | Área de Internet/XSL/PHP| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | :-: | ISOTROL, S.A. | | Edificio BLUENET, Avda. Isaac Newton nº3, 4ª planta.| | Parque Tecnológico Cartuja '93, 41092 Sevilla (ESP).| | Teléfono: +34 955 036 800 - Fax: +34 955 036 849| | http://www.isotrol.com | :-: | Aquellos que mueran mañana serán los que hayan sobrevivido hoy. | | Dusty Attenborough, La Leyenda de los Heroes de la Galaxia | '-' begin:vcard fn;quoted-printable:Miguel J. Jim=C3=A9nez Jim=C3=A9nez n;quoted-printable:Jim=C3=A9nez Jim=C3=A9nez;Miguel J. org:ISOTROL, S.A.;XSL / PHP adr;quoted-printable;quoted-printable;quoted-printable:Parque Tecnol=C3=B3gico Cartuja 93;;C/ Isaac Newton 3, 4=C2=AA;Sevilla;Sevilla;41092;Espa=C3=B1a email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Programador Senior tel;work:+34 955 036 800 (ext. 1805) tel;fax:+34 955 036 849 tel;cell:+34 607 44 87 64 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.isotrol.com version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: Compiz as default window manager
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:55:22 +0200 Miguel J. Jiménez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, right now I have metacity as default window manager and I activate compiz doing compiz --replace at gnome start... Is there a way to use compiz instead of metacity as default window manager? I mean without using compiz --replace. Thanks. By the way Ihave Debian Lenny. If you save your GNOME session after starting compiz, then it will be your window manager the next time you log in. -- Liam
Re: Compiz as default window manager
Liam O'Toole escribió: If you save your GNOME session after starting compiz, then it will be your window manager the next time you log in. Thanks, I think now load a lot faster ... (being the first thing (level 30) in the session) :-D -- .-. | Miguel J. Jiménez | | Programador Senior | | Área de Internet/XSL/PHP| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | :-: | ISOTROL, S.A. | | Edificio BLUENET, Avda. Isaac Newton nº3, 4ª planta.| | Parque Tecnológico Cartuja '93, 41092 Sevilla (ESP).| | Teléfono: +34 955 036 800 - Fax: +34 955 036 849| | http://www.isotrol.com | :-: | Aquellos que mueran mañana serán los que hayan sobrevivido hoy. | | Dusty Attenborough, La Leyenda de los Heroes de la Galaxia | '-' begin:vcard fn;quoted-printable:Miguel J. Jim=C3=A9nez Jim=C3=A9nez n;quoted-printable:Jim=C3=A9nez Jim=C3=A9nez;Miguel J. org:ISOTROL, S.A.;XSL / PHP adr;quoted-printable;quoted-printable;quoted-printable:Parque Tecnol=C3=B3gico Cartuja 93;;C/ Isaac Newton 3, 4=C2=AA;Sevilla;Sevilla;41092;Espa=C3=B1a email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Programador Senior tel;work:+34 955 036 800 (ext. 1805) tel;fax:+34 955 036 849 tel;cell:+34 607 44 87 64 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.isotrol.com version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: Compiz as default window manager
compiz instead of metacity as default window manager? I mean without using compiz --replace. Thanks. By the way Ihave Debian Lenny. A related question - I have an Nvidia FX 5200 video card, and I have managed to get compiz to work off and on, but it usually will die or crash the x server, and that was under Etch (on an Athlon 1ghz machine). I've gotten beryl to work on occasion, but not reliably, and it usually fails with not compatible window manager messages. I've done an upgrade to lenny (last week) but not a dist-upgrade because there are problems (as it attempts to want to remove KDE), and so I have that on hold for now. In migrating from etch to lenny, there seems to be a different repository for the lenny beryl/compiz packages (I have an Italian site in my sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.it.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free and it doesn't find a new package for compiz (as of a few days ago), and when I last tried compiz --replace, I get an all-white screen and I have to kill the x-window server and restart X. Miguel J. Jiménez ISOTROL, S.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] +34 955036800 +34 607448764
Compiz as default window manager
Hi, right now I have metacity as default window manager and I activate compiz doing compiz --replace at gnome start... Is there a way to use compiz instead of metacity as default window manager? I mean without using compiz --replace. Thanks. By the way Ihave Debian Lenny. -- Miguel J. Jiménez ISOTROL, S.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] +34 955036800 +34 607448764 Mis soldados dependen del dinero, que depende de la fuerza, que depende de ellos mismos. Cayo Julio César -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DEFAULT WINDOW MANAGER
Hi everybody! I am trying to set up wmaker to be my default wm. When I log in through xdm I only get X working with one shell window (I assume there's no wm running). I have to exec wmaker to get wmaker running. I have tried including exec /usr/bin/wmaker in ~/.xinitrc , but it does not work. Anybody have a clue? -- == Felipe Martínez Hermo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Servicios Informáticos UGT Galicia [EMAIL PROTECTED] == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DEFAULT WINDOW MANAGER
Please wrap your lines at about 72 characters. * Felipe Martínez Hermo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021008 17:08]: Hi everybody! I am trying to set up wmaker to be my default wm. When I log in through xdm I only get X working with one shell window (I assume there's no wm running). I have to exec wmaker to get wmaker running. I have tried including exec /usr/bin/wmaker in ~/.xinitrc , but it does not work. Anybody have a clue? Try: update-alternatives --config x-window-manager This will let you set the default wm for your machine. Or just for you, try putting exec wmaker in ~/.xsession or ~/.Xclients HTH Nick. -- Debian unstable/experimental Linux onefish 2.4.19-lavienx #1 Sat Sep 21 19:58:12 EST 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [SOLVED] DEFAULT WINDOW MANAGER
El Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:18:53PM +1000, Nick Hastings escribió: Please wrap your lines at about 72 characters. * Felipe Martínez Hermo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021008 17:08]: Hi everybody! I am trying to set up wmaker to be my default wm. When I log in through xdm I only get X working with one shell window (I assume there's no wm running). I have to exec wmaker to get wmaker running. I have tried including exec /usr/bin/wmaker in ~/.xinitrc , but it does not work. Anybody have a clue? Try: update-alternatives --config x-window-manager Thank you those were 0,02e I've been searching for a long time :-) This will let you set the default wm for your machine. Or just for you, try putting exec wmaker in ~/.xsession or ~/.Xclients HTH Nick. -- Debian unstable/experimental Linux onefish 2.4.19-lavienx #1 Sat Sep 21 19:58:12 EST 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- == Felipe Martínez Hermo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Servicios Informáticos UGT Galicia [EMAIL PROTECTED] == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DEFAULT WINDOW MANAGER
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:18:53PM +1000, Nick Hastings wrote: I have tried including exec /usr/bin/wmaker in ~/.xinitrc , hmmm not sure if the .xinitrc is called by default from the .xsession try to call the .xinitrc from your .xsession... (i had to put this in by hand... but on the other side i didn't read very far the debian docu about their adaption of X :D) update-alternatives --config x-window-manager yup that should do the thing you can also try to use kdm or gdm, they offer a chooser for your sessions, and you aren't obligated to use those useless memory hogs they are designed for. (i use gdm to start a gnomeless minimalistic sawfish session...) This will let you set the default wm for your machine. Or just for you, try putting exec wmaker in ~/.xsession or ~/.Xclients uhm what's the 'exec' for?? wmaker is surely allready executable, isn't it? what's the puropose of adding an exec? at least mine works without that -- ciao bboett == [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://inforezo.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett === -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DEFAULT WINDOW MANAGER
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 12:28, Bruno Boettcher wrote: On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:18:53PM +1000, Nick Hastings wrote: I have tried including exec /usr/bin/wmaker in ~/.xinitrc , hmmm not sure if the .xinitrc is called by default from the .xsession try to call the .xinitrc from your .xsession... See 'man startx'. It basically says that .xinitrc is only used by xinit (which is called by startx but not from xdm, gdm etc.). Note that in the Debian system, what many people traditionally put in the .xinitrc file should go in .xsession instead This will let you set the default wm for your machine. Or just for you, try putting exec wmaker in ~/.xsession or ~/.Xclients uhm what's the 'exec' for?? wmaker is surely allready executable, isn't it? what's the puropose of adding an exec? at least mine works without that exec is a Shell builtin command. 'man sh' says: exec [-cl] [-a name] [command [arguments]] If command is specified, it replaces the shell. No new process is created. So, .xinitrc resp. .xsession is executed by sh and hence you have a shell process running which is unused but uses some of your memory. If you run exec x-window-manager in these files the shell gets replaced by the window manager process which is going to be a bit more efficient (resource-wise). -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign () Debian GNU/Linux advocate - against HTML email X http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~bley/ vCards / \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DEFAULT WINDOW MANAGER
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 06:28, Bruno Boettcher wrote: On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:18:53PM +1000, Nick Hastings wrote: I have tried including exec /usr/bin/wmaker in ~/.xinitrc , hmmm not sure if the .xinitrc is called by default from the .xsession try to call the .xinitrc from your .xsession... (i had to put this in by hand... but on the other side i didn't read very far the debian docu about their adaption of X :D) update-alternatives --config x-window-manager yup that should do the thing you can also try to use kdm or gdm, they offer a chooser for your sessions, and you aren't obligated to use those useless memory hogs they are designed for. (i use gdm to start a gnomeless minimalistic sawfish session...) This will let you set the default wm for your machine. Or just for you, try putting exec wmaker in ~/.xsession or ~/.Xclients uhm what's the 'exec' for?? wmaker is surely allready executable, isn't it? what's the puropose of adding an exec? at least mine works without that -- ciao bboett == [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://inforezo.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett === Using 'exec' puts the called process (wmaker) in place of the calling process, rather than leaving a shell around waiting for a return value only to exit immediately after, this saves a bit of memory and overhead. It also *technically* (by my understanding) transfers any applications started to run as *backgrounded* tasks in the .xinitrc or .xsession to be sub-tasks of the window manager instead, although much of the fine details there are dependent on the particulars of the shell in use. Theoretically, by not using exec, on a buggy or strange shell, tasks could linger around after the exit of a window manager. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DEFAULT WINDOW MANAGER
El Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:04:11PM +0200, Claudio Bley escribió: On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 12:28, Bruno Boettcher wrote: On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:18:53PM +1000, Nick Hastings wrote: I have tried including exec /usr/bin/wmaker in ~/.xinitrc , hmmm not sure if the .xinitrc is called by default from the .xsession try to call the .xinitrc from your .xsession... See 'man startx'. It basically says that .xinitrc is only used by xinit (which is called by startx but not from xdm, gdm etc.). Note that in the Debian system, what many people traditionally put in the .xinitrc file should go in .xsession instead I used to use startx and not xdm, so .xinitrc used to work. Now I was using xdm. Anyway, update-alternatives does what I wanted and now I know that I should touch .xsession if I am not at Debian. Thanks This will let you set the default wm for your machine. Or just for you, try putting exec wmaker in ~/.xsession or ~/.Xclients uhm what's the 'exec' for?? wmaker is surely allready executable, isn't it? what's the puropose of adding an exec? at least mine works without that exec is a Shell builtin command. 'man sh' says: exec [-cl] [-a name] [command [arguments]] If command is specified, it replaces the shell. No new process is created. So, .xinitrc resp. .xsession is executed by sh and hence you have a shell process running which is unused but uses some of your memory. If you run exec x-window-manager in these files the shell gets replaced by the window manager process which is going to be a bit more efficient (resource-wise). -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign () Debian GNU/Linux advocate - against HTML email X http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~bley/ vCards / \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- == Felipe Martínez Hermo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Servicios Informáticos UGT Galicia [EMAIL PROTECTED] == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: default window manager
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 09:48:38PM -0500, David Bridges wrote: Tomasz Kosinski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On a XF86-4.01, testing, could anyone please tell me where the default window manager is controlled/determined? I have searched through likely files in the /etc/X11/ dir and subdirs, and I don't see how this is determined. Sorry if this is an obvious question...have searched with no luck. I would like to remove the default wm (icewm), and wonder if it is safe to do so. try update-alternatives --config x-window-manager Or simply control it from your ~/.xinitrc file. Mine reads: #exec twm #exec sawfish #exec gnome-session #exec uwm #exec wmaker #exec enlightenment #exec startkde #exec fvwm exec xfwm Thus very easy to control and you can do it on a user per user basis. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: The Token fell out of the ring. Call us when you find it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
default window manager
On a XF86-4.01, testing, could anyone please tell me where the default window manager is controlled/determined? I have searched through likely files in the /etc/X11/ dir and subdirs, and I don't see how this is determined. Sorry if this is an obvious question...have searched with no luck. I would like to remove the default wm (icewm), and wonder if it is safe to do so. Thanks, Tomasz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: default window manager
On 10 May 2002 22:16:12 -0400 Tomasz Kosinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a XF86-4.01, testing, could anyone please tell me where the default window manager is controlled/determined? I have searched through likely files in the /etc/X11/ dir and subdirs, and I don't see how this is determined. Sorry if this is an obvious question...have searched with no luck. Hint, try the following: ls -l /usr/bin/x-window-manager -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: default window manager
Tomasz Kosinski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On a XF86-4.01, testing, could anyone please tell me where the default window manager is controlled/determined? I have searched through likely files in the /etc/X11/ dir and subdirs, and I don't see how this is determined. Sorry if this is an obvious question...have searched with no luck. I would like to remove the default wm (icewm), and wonder if it is safe to do so. try update-alternatives --config x-window-manager -- David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Per-user default window manager
When using wdm, is there any way to set up a per-user default window manager? update-alternatives only allows for a per-system default, AFAICT. I'm setting up a network with the old NFS-shared /home scheme, which lets most of your settings follow you around to different machines, but there's just the one little detail that most people use KDE and its window manager, a couple people use GNOME and its wm, and I use WindowMaker... -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Mr. Slippery
Re: Per-user default window manager
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:39:49AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: When using wdm, is there any way to set up a per-user default window manager? update-alternatives only allows for a per-system default, AFAICT. The version of wdm in woody and sid makes this a good deal easier than the potato version. The new version has a default option in the start WM menu, which allows the user's ~/.xsession file to be used. Then they can just put 'wmaker' or 'kde2' or whatever in their .xsession file. Potato's wdm didn't have this option, so things are a good bit more difficult. There have been a number of changes between potato's wdm and later versions. I think, though, that you should be able to rebuild a new wdm .deb on potato without too much difficulty. noah (wdm maintainer) -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html pgpvZdDT9hNzx.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Default Window Manager
On Sunday 08 April 2001 21:48, Aaron wrote: Why shouldn't I be starting X from root? I'll go and add .xinitrc to my users home directory and see what happens. You can run X as root, it's just that you shouldn't make a habit of it. -- Tim Kelley [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iww.org/
Re: Default Window Manager
as i remember it, you should have no problems with apt-get remove xdm gdm also, while we are on this subject, i seem to remember reading something about how ~/.xinitrc still works, but ~/.xsession is the offical X initialization script for debian? I ran into this while trying to figure out how to disable gnome for certain users and let users choose what window manager to use when they type startx. jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: D-Man [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Debian-List debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 9:53 PM Subject: RE: Default Window Manager ahh, now I understand your directions better. How do I uninstall xdm and install gdm, or for that matter how do I just remove xdm completely? thanks, Aaron -Original Message- From: D-Man [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 6:38 PM To: Debian-List Subject: Re: Default Window Manager On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 06:53:23PM -0700, Aaron wrote: | X is currently being started by xdm I believe. | The system start twm as the current default WM and I am not getting any | error messages just not the WM I want. | I didn't have any .xinitrc files on the system so after reading the other | message I created one even though it didn't seem to do anything. Currently | my .xinitrc file simply says 'echo gnome-session'. echo-ing gnome-session won't do much good. It's almost, but not quite what you need. The command in the directions was $ echo gnome-session ~/.xinitrc the result would have gnome-session in your .xinitrc file. Try removing the 'echo' from the command. Also have .xinitrc executable (as someone else already said). You could also try having 'exec gnome-session' in your .xinitrc instead. I would also recommend switching to 'gdm' instead of 'xdm' as gdm is more gnome friendly. I say that because the GNOME people made gdm and it uses gtk like the rest of gnome. HTH, -D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Default Window Manager
on Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 07:45:43PM -0700, Aaron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This may sound dumb, but how do I remove xdm? I am new to debian and don't know how to do this. And once xdm is removed will the system then use .xinitrc and start gnome? I've got a mini-HOWTO with some brief instructions: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.comhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org pgpgg7HSbBodj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Default Window Manager
I just tried to follow these directions and still couldn't get gnome to start as the default WM. ' Just install them. In your .xinitrc add the command to start whichever envinronment you want to run. I.e. 'echo gnome-session ~/.xinitrc' will make gnome your session. Replace 'gnome-session' with 'kde2' for KDE. Deleting your .xinitrc will cause startx to revert to the system default, which I assume in this case is Blackbox. ' Can someone give me some direction to go in. thanks, Aaron
Re: Default Window Manager
on Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 05:01:37PM -0700, Aaron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I just tried to follow these directions and still couldn't get gnome to start as the default WM. ' Just install them. In your .xinitrc add the command to start whichever envinronment you want to run. I.e. 'echo gnome-session ~/.xinitrc' will make gnome your session. Replace 'gnome-session' with 'kde2' for KDE. Deleting your .xinitrc will cause startx to revert to the system default, which I assume in this case is Blackbox. ' Can someone give me some direction to go in. How are you starting X? What window manager are you getting? What error messages are you getting, if X isn't starting up? Post your .xinitrc. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.comhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org pgp4rOBYkEcVy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Default Window Manager
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 05:01:37PM -0700, Aaron wrote: I just tried to follow these directions and still couldn't get gnome to start as the default WM. ' Just install them. In your .xinitrc add the command to start whichever envinronment you want to run. I.e. 'echo gnome-session ~/.xinitrc' will make gnome your session. Replace 'gnome-session' with 'kde2' for KDE. Deleting your .xinitrc will cause startx to revert to the system default, which I assume in this case is Blackbox. ' Can someone give me some direction to go in. Is your .xinitrc executable? kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of The Panther - R. M. Rilke
RE: Default Window Manager
I did install xdm if that makes a difference. I went and looked through a few different files for anything that had the twm name in it since twm is my current WM when the system starts. Aaron -Original Message- From: Forrest English [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 4:30 PM To: Aaron Subject: Re: Default Window Manager are you using (x,g,k,w)dm? because i think then it's the xsession file? On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 17:01:37 -0700, Aaron whispered to the router: !!I just tried to follow these directions and still couldn't get gnome to !! start as the default WM. !! !! ' !! Just install them. In your .xinitrc add the command to start whichever !! envinronment you want to run. I.e. 'echo gnome-session ~/.xinitrc' !! will make gnome your session. Replace 'gnome-session' with 'kde2' for !! KDE. Deleting your .xinitrc will cause startx to revert to the system !! default, which I assume in this case is Blackbox. !! ' !! !! Can someone give me some direction to go in. !! !! thanks, !! !! Aaron !! !! -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
RE: Default Window Manager
X is currently being started by xdm I believe. The system start twm as the current default WM and I am not getting any error messages just not the WM I want. I didn't have any .xinitrc files on the system so after reading the other message I created one even though it didn't seem to do anything. Currently my .xinitrc file simply says 'echo gnome-session'. Aaron -Original Message- From: kmself@ix.netcom.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 4:42 PM To: Debian-List Subject: Re: Default Window Manager on Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 05:01:37PM -0700, Aaron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I just tried to follow these directions and still couldn't get gnome to start as the default WM. ' Just install them. In your .xinitrc add the command to start whichever envinronment you want to run. I.e. 'echo gnome-session ~/.xinitrc' will make gnome your session. Replace 'gnome-session' with 'kde2' for KDE. Deleting your .xinitrc will cause startx to revert to the system default, which I assume in this case is Blackbox. ' Can someone give me some direction to go in. How are you starting X? What window manager are you getting? What error messages are you getting, if X isn't starting up? Post your .xinitrc. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.comhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
Re: Default Window Manager
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 06:53:23PM -0700, Aaron wrote: X is currently being started by xdm I believe. The system start twm as the current default WM and I am not getting any error messages just not the WM I want. I didn't have any .xinitrc files on the system so after reading the other message I created one even though it didn't seem to do anything. Currently my .xinitrc file simply says 'echo gnome-session'. Remove xdm or kill the start scripts. If I remember right you wanted to use 'startx' I don't think xdm reads .xinitrc. I may be wrong about that. I haven't used xdm for a long time. kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of The Panther - R. M. Rilke
RE: Default Window Manager
This may sound dumb, but how do I remove xdm? I am new to debian and don't know how to do this. And once xdm is removed will the system then use .xinitrc and start gnome? thanks, Aaron -Original Message- From: ktb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 6:26 PM To: Debian-List Subject: Re: Default Window Manager On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 06:53:23PM -0700, Aaron wrote: X is currently being started by xdm I believe. The system start twm as the current default WM and I am not getting any error messages just not the WM I want. I didn't have any .xinitrc files on the system so after reading the other message I created one even though it didn't seem to do anything. Currently my .xinitrc file simply says 'echo gnome-session'. Remove xdm or kill the start scripts. If I remember right you wanted to use 'startx' I don't think xdm reads .xinitrc. I may be wrong about that. I haven't used xdm for a long time. kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of The Panther - R. M. Rilke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Default Window Manager
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 06:53:23PM -0700, Aaron wrote: | X is currently being started by xdm I believe. | The system start twm as the current default WM and I am not getting any | error messages just not the WM I want. | I didn't have any .xinitrc files on the system so after reading the other | message I created one even though it didn't seem to do anything. Currently | my .xinitrc file simply says 'echo gnome-session'. echo-ing gnome-session won't do much good. It's almost, but not quite what you need. The command in the directions was $ echo gnome-session ~/.xinitrc the result would have gnome-session in your .xinitrc file. Try removing the 'echo' from the command. Also have .xinitrc executable (as someone else already said). You could also try having 'exec gnome-session' in your .xinitrc instead. I would also recommend switching to 'gdm' instead of 'xdm' as gdm is more gnome friendly. I say that because the GNOME people made gdm and it uses gtk like the rest of gnome. HTH, -D
RE: Default Window Manager
Why shouldn't I be starting X from root? I'll go and add .xinitrc to my users home directory and see what happens. Aaron -Original Message- From: ktb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 6:21 PM To: Aaron Subject: Re: Default Window Manager On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 06:55:30PM -0700, Aaron wrote: Good question. I didn't have an .xinitrc file until I created one in /root for the root user and then added the line 'echo gnome-session' to it. I'll check and get back to you You shouldn't be starting X as root. .xinitrc belongs in your home directory not /root. Go ahead and post it to the list. kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of The Panther - R. M. Rilke
RE: Default Window Manager
ahh, now I understand your directions better. How do I uninstall xdm and install gdm, or for that matter how do I just remove xdm completely? thanks, Aaron -Original Message- From: D-Man [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 6:38 PM To: Debian-List Subject: Re: Default Window Manager On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 06:53:23PM -0700, Aaron wrote: | X is currently being started by xdm I believe. | The system start twm as the current default WM and I am not getting any | error messages just not the WM I want. | I didn't have any .xinitrc files on the system so after reading the other | message I created one even though it didn't seem to do anything. Currently | my .xinitrc file simply says 'echo gnome-session'. echo-ing gnome-session won't do much good. It's almost, but not quite what you need. The command in the directions was $ echo gnome-session ~/.xinitrc the result would have gnome-session in your .xinitrc file. Try removing the 'echo' from the command. Also have .xinitrc executable (as someone else already said). You could also try having 'exec gnome-session' in your .xinitrc instead. I would also recommend switching to 'gdm' instead of 'xdm' as gdm is more gnome friendly. I say that because the GNOME people made gdm and it uses gtk like the rest of gnome. HTH, -D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Default Window Manager
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001, Aaron wrote: This may sound dumb, but how do I remove xdm? I am new to debian and don't know how to do this. And once xdm is removed will the system then use .xinitrc and start gnome? Aaron, You want 'update-rc.d -f xdm remove' (run as root). Use 'update-rc.d -n -f xdm remove' to try it out without actually doing anything. See 'man update-rc.d' for more info. 'update-rc.d' is one of many handy Debian-specific tools. You might also want to acquaint yourself with the unrelated, but also helpful, 'update-alternatives', which similarly manages certain resources in /etc. Here's some more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/sbin/update-rc.d usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] basename remove update-rc.d [-n] [-f] basename defaults [NN | sNN kNN] update-rc.d [-n] [-f] basename start|stop NN runlvl runlvl . ... -n: not really -f: force [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ BTW, this was covered earlier this week on this list. You might want to also consult the list archives at debian.org. Take care and hope this helps, Daniel thanks, Aaron -Original Message- From: ktb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 6:26 PM To: Debian-List Subject: Re: Default Window Manager On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 06:53:23PM -0700, Aaron wrote: X is currently being started by xdm I believe. The system start twm as the current default WM and I am not getting any error messages just not the WM I want. I didn't have any .xinitrc files on the system so after reading the other message I created one even though it didn't seem to do anything. Currently my .xinitrc file simply says 'echo gnome-session'. Remove xdm or kill the start scripts. If I remember right you wanted to use 'startx' I don't think xdm reads .xinitrc. I may be wrong about that. I haven't used xdm for a long time. kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of The Panther - R. M. Rilke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Daniel A. Freedman Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics Department of Physics Cornell University
Re: Default Window Manager
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 07:45:43PM -0700, Aaron wrote: This may sound dumb, but how do I remove xdm? I am new to debian and don't know how to do this. And once xdm is removed will the system then use .xinitrc and start gnome? # apt-get remove xdm or # dpkg -r xdm Should remove xdm If you have everything correctly setup regarding .xinitrc gnome should start. kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of The Panther - R. M. Rilke
Re: Default Window Manager
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 07:45:43PM -0700, Aaron wrote: This may sound dumb, but how do I remove xdm? I am new to debian and don't know how to do this. And once xdm is removed will the system then use .xinitrc and start gnome? Run dselect as root. The .xinitrc file will be used when running startx from the console (the system won't start with a GUI login). I've never used xdm, but according to the man page it uses .xsession.
Re: Default Window Manager
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001, Aaron wrote: Why shouldn't I be starting X from root? I'll go and add .xinitrc to my users home directory and see what happens. Aaron, Anything that runs as root has root level permissions, with the associated ability to do essentially anything to your system. Most people try very hard to absolutely limit the number of programs run as root. X is a _very_ large program, with I'm sure (even consideering its fine pedigree coming out of MIT's Project Athena) a fair amount of bugs, buffer overflows, etc.; not the type of things you would want to have root privileges. You might find it helpful to read up a little more on some gentle intros to linux/unix that might help answer some of these questions (see linuxdoc.org, Michael Kofler's Linux Intro book published by Addison Wesley, etc.). Otherwise, hope the above helps and take care, Daniel Aaron -Original Message- From: ktb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 6:21 PM To: Aaron Subject: Re: Default Window Manager On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 06:55:30PM -0700, Aaron wrote: Good question. I didn't have an .xinitrc file until I created one in /root for the root user and then added the line 'echo gnome-session' to it. I'll check and get back to you You shouldn't be starting X as root. .xinitrc belongs in your home directory not /root. Go ahead and post it to the list. kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of The Panther - R. M. Rilke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Daniel A. Freedman Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics Department of Physics Cornell University
Re: Default Window Manager
* Daniel Freedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [08Apr01 22:31 -0400]: Anything that runs as root has root level permissions, with the associated ability to do essentially anything to your system. Most people try very hard to absolutely limit the number of programs run as root. X is a _very_ large program, with I'm sure (even consideering its fine pedigree coming out of MIT's Project Athena) a fair amount of bugs, buffer overflows, etc.; not the type of things you would want to have root privileges. You apparently don't know that X actually runs suid root. -- Regards, -=[Ty]=-
(deb potato) How to set default window manager for a) system b)indivdual users
Hello, The subject line says it all...there's no /etc/X11/window-managers file any more in potato and I want to change the default system window manager and find out how to get users to be able to change their own on login. Martin _ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
Re: (deb potato) How to set default window manager for a) system b)indivdual users
Hi Martin If you use gdm (gnome desktop manager), it will promt each user logging in for the session he wants (and asks if he wants this session for default in future). The sessions are defined in /etc/gdm/Sessions, and the system-wide default session is a symlink /etc/gdm/Sessions/Defaults - /etc/gdm/Sessions/gnome or any other session. you can add sessions by copying existing sessions and changing them to what you ant them to look like. Hope that is what you wanted. I have no idea how to do this without graphical-login manager... joerg Martin Waller schrieb: Hello, The subject line says it all...there's no /etc/X11/window-managers file any more in potato and I want to change the default system window manager and find out how to get users to be able to change their own on login. Martin _ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
Re: (deb potato) How to set default window manager for a) system b)indivdual users
Joerg == Joerg Johannes writes: Joerg I have no idea how to do this without graphical-login Joerg manager... update-alternatives --config x-window-manager -- Sergey Suleimanov
Re: (deb potato) How to set default window manager for a) system b)indivdual users
If you are not using gdm, perhaps you like xdm or whatever, but there is another way. In each users home directory create an .xsession file. This should be an executable shell script. In the script, put a line to run whatever window manager you want for the user. Thus, for blackbox, use only one line: exec blackbox For gnome, change blackbox to gnome-session. For kde, change blackbox to startke. You can also put x apps that you would like to start up in the .xsession, too. Check out the man page, there's lots you can do with the session start up file. For system wide, as mentioned earlier, update-alternatives --config x-window-manager will change the default for every user. HTH Tim On Thursday 07 December 2000 15:49, Martin Waller wrote: Hello, The subject line says it all...there's no /etc/X11/window-managers file any more in potato and I want to change the default system window manager and find out how to get users to be able to change their own on login. Martin ___ __ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com -- === == Timothy Klein || And what rough beast == == [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Its hour come round at last== == Aufwiedersehen! || Slouches towards Bethleham to be born? == == Aufwiedersehen! || The beast of Redmond, nothing more.== ===
Re: (deb potato) How to set default window manager for a) system b)indivdual users
Sorry to barge in, but I've been using .xinitrc. Aren't they comparable or are there differences. Running Linux didn't speak of any. And, since the first thing I did was remove xdm, still have an active xdm.log even though it's been apt-get removed -purged...? On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:26:10AM -0700, Timothy C . Klein wrote: If you are not using gdm, perhaps you like xdm or whatever, but there is another way. In each users home directory create an .xsession file. This should be an executable shell script. In the script, put a line to run whatever window manager you want for the user. Thus, for blackbox, use only one line: Thanks Jonathan -- Hey, I think I finally got the hang of i-
starting a default window manager
Hi, How to startup say fvwm95 on login *without* touching users home director located files such as .xsession etc. Any ideas? BTW, is there a general place to look for such information ? Thanking you Suresh = Suresh Kumar.R Dept of Electronics Communication College of Engineering Trivandrum, INDIA email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: starting a default window manager
In a previous release of Debian (Slink) there was a text file (/etc/X11/window-managers) where you could write it your preferences about which window manager run when there wasn't any .xinit or .xsession into the home dir. In potato you can modify the /etc/X11/Xsession or the /usr/X11R6/bin/startx scripts to do the same, take a look into the both files and choose your custom system... On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, suresh kumar wrote: Hi, How to startup say fvwm95 on login *without* touching users home director located files such as .xsession etc. Any ideas? BTW, is there a general place to look for such information ? Thanking you Suresh = Suresh Kumar.R Dept of Electronics Communication College of Engineering Trivandrum, INDIA email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: starting a default window manager
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 02:49:23AM -0700, suresh kumar wrote: How to startup say fvwm95 on login *without* touching users home director located files such as .xsession etc. If you want to set the default window manager you can do something like: update-alternatives --config x-window-manager and then choose among the installed ones. -- // André
Re: starting a default window manager
[2000-08-16] Josep Llaurad? Selvas wrote: On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, suresh kumar wrote: How to startup say fvwm95 on login *without* touching users home director located files such as .xsession etc. In a previous release of Debian (Slink) there was a text file (/etc/X11/window-managers) where you could write it your preferences about which window manager run when there wasn't any .xinit or .xsession into the home dir. In potato you can modify the /etc/X11/Xsession or the /usr/X11R6/bin/startx scripts to do the same, take a look into the both files and choose your custom system... And in woody you use # update-alternatives --config x-window-manager if the windowmanager needs to change per user, you could install a display manager such a wdm that gives a menu of the available choices. -- Lee Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] traveling at the speed of time
wrong default-window-manager
Hi! After updating to the latest xserver-common in frozen, X started up with fvwm as the default window-manager. I´ve checked /etc/X11/window-managers and there´s fvwm95 with correct path and all as the first window-manager in there. While I can switch to fvwm95 on-the-fly my girl-friend, who also uses my pc, isn´t clueful enough to live without all the default apps and settings I installed with the (for her ;-) familiar interface of fvwm95. I already apt-get remove fvwm completely, to the effect that X comes up with no window-manager at all :-( . I´ve checked all the configuration files I could find, but to no effect. The only other option I can think of is to apt-get remove fvwm95, apt-get install fvwm95, but that would just be working on the symptoms, not the cause... Any suggestions? TIA, rw -- / Robert Waldner [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Phone: +43 1 89933 0 Fax x533 \ \KPNQwest/AT tech staff| Diefenbachg. 35 A-1150 Wien /
Re: wrong default-window-manager
Re:Hi! Have you tried to set the x-window-manager link in /etc/alternatives to point on fvwm95? I'm not quite sure wether the /etc/X11/window-managers file is still used. Martin On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: Hi! After updating to the latest xserver-common in frozen, X started up with fvwm as the default window-manager. I´ve checked /etc/X11/window-managers and there´s fvwm95 with correct path and all as the first window-manager in there. While I can switch to fvwm95 on-the-fly my girl-friend, who also uses my pc, isn´t clueful enough to live without all the default apps and settings I installed with the (for her ;-) familiar interface of fvwm95. I already apt-get remove fvwm completely, to the effect that X comes up with no window-manager at all :-( . I´ve checked all the configuration files I could find, but to no effect. The only other option I can think of is to apt-get remove fvwm95, apt-get install fvwm95, but that would just be working on the symptoms, not the cause... Any suggestions? TIA, rw -- Win2k: It's not so much that it's only 65,000 bugs, it's just that they stopped at 65,535 to prevent an overflow. For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wrong default-window-manager
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:14:56AM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote: Re:Hi! Have you tried to set the x-window-manager link in /etc/alternatives to point on fvwm95? I'm not quite sure wether the /etc/X11/window-managers file is still used. its not, the last traces of this file have been obliterated in the latest upgrade to the XFree packages. see the xfree86 changelog. update-alternatives --config x-window-manager should allow you to set the default windowmanager, if not just make sure /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager is a symlink to the preferred windowmanager. Martin On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: Hi! After updating to the latest xserver-common in frozen, X started up with fvwm as the default window-manager. I´ve checked /etc/X11/window-managers and there´s fvwm95 with correct path and all as the first window-manager in there. While I can switch to fvwm95 on-the-fly my girl-friend, who also uses my pc, isn´t clueful enough to live without all the default apps and settings I installed with the (for her ;-) familiar interface of fvwm95. I already apt-get remove fvwm completely, to the effect that X comes up with no window-manager at all :-( . I´ve checked all the configuration files I could find, but to no effect. The only other option I can think of is to apt-get remove fvwm95, apt-get install fvwm95, but that would just be working on the symptoms, not the cause... Any suggestions? TIA, rw -- Win2k: It's not so much that it's only 65,000 bugs, it's just that they stopped at 65,535 to prevent an overflow. For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Ethan Benson
Re: wrong default-window-manager
On Thu, 09 Mar 2000 09:14:56 +0200, Martin Fluch writes: Have you tried to set the x-window-manager link in /etc/alternatives to point on fvwm95? Well, there wasn´t any x-* - link in /etc/alternatives :-( so I didn´t try anything there, but symlinking /usr/bin/x-window-manager to fvwm95 like in Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 22:21:18 -0500 From: Mike Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Potato Broke My X did the trick (the mail came in only minutes after my original posting). Tnx Mike Martin! I'm not quite sure wether the /etc/X11/window-managers file is still used. Doesn´t seem so. Tnx again! rw -- / Robert Waldner [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Phone: +43 1 89933 0 Fax x533 \ \KPNQwest/AT tech staff| Diefenbachg. 35 A-1150 Wien /
Re: wrong default-window-manager
See the Potato Broke My X thread. the latest X removed all support for the /etc/X11/window-managers, using the alternatives system instead. On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 07:45:12AM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: Hi! After updating to the latest xserver-common in frozen, X started up with fvwm as the default window-manager. I´ve checked /etc/X11/window-managers and there´s fvwm95 with correct path and all as the first window-manager in there. While I can switch to fvwm95 on-the-fly my girl-friend, who also uses my pc, isn´t clueful enough to live without all the default apps and settings I installed with the (for her ;-) familiar interface of fvwm95. I already apt-get remove fvwm completely, to the effect that X comes up with no window-manager at all :-( . I´ve checked all the configuration files I could find, but to no effect. The only other option I can think of is to apt-get remove fvwm95, apt-get install fvwm95, but that would just be working on the symptoms, not the cause... Any suggestions? TIA, rw -- / Robert Waldner [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Phone: +43 1 89933 0 Fax x533 \ \KPNQwest/AT tech staff| Diefenbachg. 35 A-1150 Wien / -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- finger for GPG public key. pgpztX7JPVQ8x.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: changing default window manager - How!
To make it system wide, edit /etc/X11/window-managers. Your default will be the first one in that list. Martin Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 17:17:57 -0500 From: Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: rathon [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: changing default window manager - How! Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I would make a .xinitrc file in your homedir and put: exec your-prefered-window-manager in it. he chsh command will change your shell -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: changing default window manager - How!
I am using Debian2.0 and the default window manager that comes up is fvwm. I would like to change this permanently to olvwm. Which file should I edit ? /home/userid/.xsession the last line should say olvm remember to make it executably. Also, how I can I change my shell permanently from bash to csh.. chsh Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
changing default window manager - How!
Hi, I am using Debian2.0 and the default window manager that comes up is fvwm. I would like to change this permanently to olvwm. Which file should I edit ? Also, how I can I change my shell permanently from bash to csh.. Thanks in advance Rathon Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
Re: changing default window manager - How!
You can change your /etc/X11/Xsession file to use olvwm. Not sure about shell selection. rathon [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/5/98 4:40:47 PM Hi, I am using Debian2.0 and the default window manager that comes up is fvwm. I would like to change this permanently to olvwm. Which file should I edit ? Also, how I can I change my shell permanently from bash to csh.. Thanks in advance Rathon Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: changing default window manager - How!
edit /etc/X11/window-managers after the commented lines (beginning with '#'), it lists, in order of preference, windows managers to load -- you want yours to be the first on that list. -- quiet rob --- Just keep telling yourself you are immortal --Albert Hofmann On 5 Nov 1998, rathon wrote: Hi, I am using Debian2.0 and the default window manager that comes up is fvwm. I would like to change this permanently to olvwm. Which file should I edit ? Also, how I can I change my shell permanently from bash to csh.. Thanks in advance Rathon Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: changing default window manager - How!
r == rathon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: r I am using Debian2.0 and the default window manager that comes up is r fvwm. I would like to change this permanently to olvwm. Which file r should I edit ? /etc/X11/window-managers The topmost entry ist the default one. r Also, how I can I change my shell permanently from bash to csh.. chsh Ciao, Martin
Re: changing default window manager - How!
On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 10:49:23PM +0100, Stephan Engelke wrote: Also, how I can I change my shell permanently from bash to csh.. Become root and edit /etc/passwd. Use the vipw command!! Find the line with your user-id at the beginning (should be at the very bottom of the file) and change the last but one field, the one that says /bin/csh to something you like (e.g. /bin/bash). (The path could be /usr/bin/.. in both cases, chech with which bash first). Now log out as user and log in again. Viola - here' your new shell. So long, Stephan Any user should be able to change their shell using chsh. The new shell just has to be in /etc/shells. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changing default window manager - How!
Hi, I would make a .xinitrc file in your homedir and put: exec your-prefered-window-manager in it. he chsh command will change your shell -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
default window manager
Could someone please tell me how to change the default window manager to windowmaker? thanx, Brian _ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]
Re: default window manager
a) create a file called .xsession (or .xinitrc) in your home directory. In it place a line like the following: exec wmakwer This will start window maker when X starts. or b) edit /etc/X11/window-managers and put wmaker at the top of the list Brian D Kellogg wrote: Could someone please tell me how to change the default window manager to windowmaker? thanx, Brian _ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- = Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today
Re: Default Window Manager
Thomas == Thomas Baetzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thomas Angel Leyva wrote: I have X installed and running fine, using xinit. When I start the X environment, I get no window manager at all. How can I get X to start a window manager by default? Thomas See man xinit. You´ll have to make up a .xsession file Thomas starting all of the applications you want in the Thomas background, and starting the window manager as the last Thomas set in the foreground. Once you exit the window manager, Thomas this script terminates and ends your X session. I like to run 'exec unclutter' as the last program, and run the WM in the background with the other startup programs. That way, I can switch window managers if I like, while I try them all out and see which one I like; or what features of each I like. TkDesk makes an OK 'session manager'; when you press its quit button, the X session ends. -- __ _Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /(_)_ __ _ ___ __ http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg / / | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / Portland, OR, USA / /__| | | | | |_| | Proudly running Linux 2.0.27 transname \/_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ and Debian GNU public software! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Default Window Manager
I have X installed and running fine, using xinit. When I start the X environment, I get no window manager at all. How can I get X to start a window manager by default? Angel Leyva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://cybernex.net/~airborne -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Default Window Manager
Angel Leyva wrote: I have X installed and running fine, using xinit. When I start the X environment, I get no window manager at all. How can I get X to start a window manager by default? See man xinit. You´ll have to make up a .xsession file starting all of the applications you want in the background, and starting the window manager as the last set in the foreground. Once you exit the window manager, this script terminates and ends your X session. Ciao, -- Thomas Baetzler, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] A HREF=http://home.pages.de/~thb/;thb's Homepage/A -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
