Hi, On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 19:17, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/12/13 Mike Mazur <mma...@gmail.com>: > >> I ran across this issue last night. >> >> At some point /etc/rc.conf was no longer being sourced. Instead, >> setting the XSESSION variable in /etc/env.d is the correct way to do >> it. From the pkg_postinst section of the x11-apps/xinit ebuild[1]: >> >> ewarn "If you use startx to start X instead of a login manager like >> gdm/kdm," >> ewarn "you can set the XSESSION variable to anything in >> /etc/X11/Sessions/ or" >> ewarn "any executable. When you run startx, it will run this as the >> login session." >> ewarn "You can set this in a file in /etc/env.d/ for the entire >> system," >> ewarn "or set it per-user in ~/.bash_profile (or similar for other >> shells)." >> ewarn "Here's an example of setting it for the whole system:" >> ewarn " echo XSESSION=\"Gnome\" > /etc/env.d/90xsession" >> ewarn " env-update && source /etc/profile" >> >> So, creating /etc/env.d/90xsession with the contents XSESSION="Gnome" >> (I use Gnome) did the trick. > > Thanks Mike, most helpful! What happens if you want to switch between > different sessions at/from the Display Manager stage? Do you place > them all in /etc/env.d/90xsession ?
Sorry, I'm not sure how to do that. I'm the only user on my system and I don't use a graphical login manager. Mike
