Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

[Dale]

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. 

Dale

:-)  :-)