From: Chris Bannister
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 07:40:12 +1200
> ... it says .xsessionrc is read by .xsession, yet I have no .xsession file.
> But from here:
> root@tal:~# file /usr/bin/startx
> /usr/bin/startx: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable
> which points to ...
> which sources: .
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Chris Bannister
wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:14:54AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
>> Have you tried not having your .xssesionrc at all? Does it provide
>> the same result to you as with .xsessionrc?
>
> Yes, except for:
>
> ...
>
> IOW, it reads .xsessionr
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:52:58AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
> > I use startx, and only have an .xsessionrc file. I know it is read
> > because of the xterm settings.
>
> Resources, whether for xterm, urxvt, or similar, usually are not
> configured into .xinitrc, neither .xsession (I never used
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:14:54AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
> Have you tried not having your .xssesionrc at all? Does it provide
> the same result to you as with .xsessionrc?
Yes, except for:
-8< .xsessionrc -8<
/home/chrisb/background.sh &
xterm -fn 10x20 -xrm "XT
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Javier Vasquez
wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Chris Bannister
> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:52:58AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Chris Bannister
>>> > I use startx, and only have an .xsessionrc file. I kno
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Chris Bannister
wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:52:58AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Chris Bannister
>> > I use startx, and only have an .xsessionrc file. I know it is read
>> > because of the xterm settings.
>>
>> Resources
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:52:58AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Chris Bannister
> > I use startx, and only have an .xsessionrc file. I know it is read
> > because of the xterm settings.
>
> Resources, whether for xterm, urxvt, or similar, usually are not
> config
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Chris Bannister
wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:31:51PM -0400, John L. Cunningham wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 09:20:02AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
>> > In the process of trying to make xmonad work I've found
>> > that startx fails whereas xdm succee
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:31:51PM -0400, John L. Cunningham wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 09:20:02AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
> > In the process of trying to make xmonad work I've found
> > that startx fails whereas xdm succeeds. The logs are here.
> > startx fails: http://carnot.yi.or
From: "John L. Cunningham"
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:31:51 -0400
> I would only note that startx and xdm don't necessarily look at the same
> startup files. xdm looks for .xsession and startx looks for .xinitrc.
/home/peter/.xsession is non-existent and /home/peter/.xinitrc contains
two co
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 09:20:02AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
> In the process of trying to make xmonad work I've found
> that startx fails whereas xdm succeeds. The logs are here.
> startx fails: http://carnot.yi.org/Xorg.0.log.old
> xdm succeeds: http://carnot.yi.org/Xorg.0.log
>
> My su
In the process of trying to make xmonad work I've found
that startx fails whereas xdm succeeds. The logs are here.
startx fails: http://carnot.yi.org/Xorg.0.log.old
xdm succeeds: http://carnot.yi.org/Xorg.0.log
My summary of the differences follows.
Any insights to direct further studies?
Tha
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:36:31PM +0100, ian silvester wrote:
> Okay, so I've installed kdm by:
>
> apt-get install kdm
>
> which all went smoothly, and has set kdm as my default display manager.
> However, at the end of the boot process I see:
>
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:02:28PM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote:
> * Steve Lamb
> > Unless you are exceptionally tight on memory (which KDE suggests you're
> > not) I'd say just install kdm. It is based on xdm but you can configure it
> > nicely from
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:36:31 +0100
ian silvester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> and yet the GUI does not boot? I've left gdm and xdm installed, but I don't
> think they can get in the way - what am I missing folks?
What's on your 6th (or 7th) console? Any error messages?
--
Steve C.
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:22:50 -0700, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:17:54 +0100
Ian Silvester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What is the best way to make the runlevel-based X boot to go to KDE?
Should I tweak xdm's config (if so which file where?) or should I
install kdm
On 17 Jul 2003 21:02:28 +0200
Jon Haugsand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can you also do this from, say, fvwm?
Erm, technically yes since it is just a configuration option off the KDE
control panel. However kdm's configuration (/etc/kdex/kdm where x is the
version of KDE) is fairly straightfor
* Steve Lamb
> Unless you are exceptionally tight on memory (which KDE suggests you're
> not) I'd say just install kdm. It is based on xdm but you can configure it
> nicely from within KDE itself.
Can you also do this from, say, fvwm?
--
Jon Haugsand
Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, N
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:17:54 +0100
Ian Silvester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is the best way to make the runlevel-based X boot to go to KDE? Should
> I tweak xdm's config (if so which file where?) or should I install kdm
> instead via apt?
Unless you are exceptionally tight on memory (
Hi,
I have a Woody install, using the 2.4.18bf24 kernel. I had been booting to
a console from which to login (I commented the entry in /etc/X11default-
display-manager to prevent the GUI auto-starting). I then used startx to
start a GUI. This quite happily booted KDE.
I now wish to auto-boot t
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