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On Wednesday 21 Feb 2007 18:36:59 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 21 February 2007 13:19, John covici wrote: |
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> > Yep, that does work, but I had no idea that functionality was even |
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> > there -- the line was commented out in the file. |
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> That sets a systemwide default. As others suggested, the file ~/.xinitrc |
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> might be used to choose on a per-user basis the X session to run (it has |
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> to be created by each user who wants it). |
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Actually, GDM uses Xsessions and startx uses xinitrc files. |
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If you look at the /etc/X11/xinitrc file, it looks for and uses the ~/.xinitrc |
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file if present. Otherwise, it uses the system default |
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of /etc/X11/chooser.sh, which uses the variable XSESSION. |
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If neither of the methods works, it starts a twm session. |
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Correct me if I'm wrong please. |
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HTH. |
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