xdm and LXDE are installed here. Wikipedia tells that xdm
is a display manager and LXDE is a desktop environment. I'm
convinced that the acronyms are consistent with function.
No outstanding problems with either of these softwares.
Currently I'm interested to try xmonad. Wikipedia tells
that it is a window manager. The xmonad metapackage is
installed. /usr/share/doc/xmonad/README has
Running xmonad:
Add:
$HOME/bin/xmonad
to the last line of your .xsession or .xinitrc file.
/usr/share/doc/xmonad/README.Debian doesn't contradict this
but there is no ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc here.
Well, given that xmonad is a window manager, it might be able to
manage windows in LXDE. I opened an LXTerminal and tried it.
peter@dalton:~$ xmonad
X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource
denied)
Major opcode of failed request: 2 (X_ChangeWindowAttributes)
Serial number of failed request: 7
Current serial number in output stream: 8
"private resource"? Definitely clear as mud.
In all the screenshots I've seen, the xmonad windows occupy the whole screen
with nothing else visible at the edges. So I wonder whether xmonad can run
on X without a desktop environment. Explanations?
Does anyone here use xmonad? How do you start it?
Thanks, ... Peter E.
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