>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. FYI I don't think it is a good idea to use exec more than once. In the above case do not exec xterm. I read somewhere (in bash' man pages I think) that exec substitutes the current shell with the exec'ed command. In the case of X the effect would be that when ending the exec'ed command X would also end. In the above case I am not sure what would happen if the user decided that he did not need the xterm any longer, but would like to stay in X. I'm not in front of a Linux box right now, so I can't test what will happen. See man bash or try apropos exec - or just test the above setup of course :o) Best regards Johnny :o)
