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Hi, |
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I ran across this issue last night. |
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On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 02:30, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> If this is the case, am I right to assume that the files in |
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> /etc/X11/Sessions/* are not used anymore and the solution is to set up a local |
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> ~/.xinitrc file for launching the desired WM? |
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The scripts in /etc/X11/Sessions/ can still be used. |
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> I am muddled up because I have forever it seems used /etc/rc.conf to manage |
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> the XSESSION which xdm would pick from /etc/X11/Sessions/* to start different |
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> WMs. |
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At some point /etc/rc.conf was no longer being sourced. Instead, |
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setting the XSESSION variable in /etc/env.d is the correct way to do |
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it. From the pkg_postinst section of the x11-apps/xinit ebuild[1]: |
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ewarn "If you use startx to start X instead of a login manager like gdm/kdm," |
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ewarn "you can set the XSESSION variable to anything in /etc/X11/Sessions/ or" |
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ewarn "any executable. When you run startx, it will run this as the |
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login session." |
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ewarn "You can set this in a file in /etc/env.d/ for the entire system," |
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ewarn "or set it per-user in ~/.bash_profile (or similar for other shells)." |
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ewarn "Here's an example of setting it for the whole system:" |
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ewarn " echo XSESSION=\"Gnome\" > /etc/env.d/90xsession" |
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ewarn " env-update && source /etc/profile" |
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So, creating /etc/env.d/90xsession with the contents XSESSION="Gnome" |
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(I use Gnome) did the trick. |
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Hope that helps, |
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Mike |
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[1] http://gentoo-portage.com/AJAX/Ebuild/100485/View |
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