On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:43:07AM -0400, richard wrote: > New install and just got X to work. xdm starts twm, which is lame, on > VC7 with a login. You can't get out of it on that console. Startx won't > work anywhere of cours. > > I want to use e.g. icewm. How do I reconfigure xdm to default to a > different > window manager, and/or turn xdm off? I couldn't find the script to > change in /etc/X11. > > I wrote a test .xsession file (did make executable) with just exec > xterm. Even though allow-user-xsession does in > /etc/X11/Xsession.options, that $HOME/.xsession doesn't prevail and > still stuck with twm.
If you don't want a graphical login remove xdm with apt-get. To load icewm from xdm or startx, if the executable name is "icewn" put - exec icewm in ~/.xsession Make sure all "exec" lines are backgrounded with "&" except one. For example - #!/bin/sh exec xterm & exec icewm Used in this manner .xsession doesn't have to be set as executable. hth, kent
