Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

[Dan]

I'm not sure if this helps, but I believe all i have to do to get to
fluxbox (in fact i'm sure of it) is to select fluxbox from the menu in
gdm.  If you use xdm, .xsession would be the right file (you can select
that in gdm as "custom").  I dont know for kde.

I always forget about fancy point-&-click smart configurations like
gdm, so it took me a while for someone on the forums to point out that
if i just bothered to look in the session chooser dialog i'd have seen
that my custom setting was right there, waiting to be selected.

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:23:55 +0000
Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 28 December 2006 04:18, Samuel Baldwin wrote:
> > > Try .xsession , add "exec startfluxbox".
> >
> > Excuse me. That should read .xinitrc , and that's in your ~. Light
> > night, my bad. :)
>
> Under /etc/X11/Sessions I have a file called fluxbox.  In there I
> have: ============================
> /usr/bin/startfluxbox
> ============================
> along with a few other apps I need started/stopped with fluxbox, e.g.
> gpg-agent.
>
> I believe this file was created automatically when I emerged fluxbox
> (but can't remember for sure).  The same directory has other WM
> startup files too, like Xsession and kde-3.5.  Bear in mind that
> relevant files moved around when xorg was changed to modular.
>
> HTH.

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