Re: [dev] running dwm from/with gnome

2016-05-16 Thread Timothy Rice
> I'm not sure my other "factual error(s?)" was, but I would be happy to > be enlightened. Yeah, I wrote in a hurry. After sending it I thought it could have been worded better. The issues I noticed and was responding to were: 1. Uncertainty around whether .xinitrc would be recognised on session

Re: [dev] running dwm from/with gnome

2016-05-16 Thread Eric Pruitt
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 10:45:19AM +1000, Timothy Rice wrote: > There seems to be some confusion around xsessions etc, resulting in some > factual errors in one or two recent emails. The following might be useful: > [...] > I can't speak one way or the other for the .xsession file, but it is not >

Re: [dev] running dwm from/with gnome

2016-05-16 Thread Timothy Rice
Dear all, There seems to be some confusion around xsessions etc, resulting in some factual errors in one or two recent emails. The following might be useful: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/47359/what-is-xsession-for To summarise, .xsession is used as a custom script when starting X from

Re: [dev] running dwm from/with gnome

2016-05-16 Thread Eric Pruitt
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 03:00:16PM -0800, Britton Kerin wrote: > I just made .xinit: > > $ ls -l .xinitrc > -rw-r--r-- 1 bkerin bkerin 9 May 16 14:50 .xinitrc > $ cat .xinitrc > exec dwm > $ > > I slightly remember doing that 20 years ago or so, fun. But it doesn't > seem to work nowadays at least

Re: [dev] running dwm from/with gnome

2016-05-16 Thread Britton Kerin
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Eric Pruitt wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 02:05:58PM -0800, Britton Kerin wrote: >> Is it possible to run dwm and keep my desktop icons somehow? I have >> most of my projects sort of geographically organized there which sucks >> I know but I'd rather not lose i

Re: [dev] running dwm from/with gnome

2016-05-16 Thread Eric Pruitt
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 02:05:58PM -0800, Britton Kerin wrote: > Is it possible to run dwm and keep my desktop icons somehow? I have > most of my projects sort of geographically organized there which sucks > I know but I'd rather not lose it right now. I found lots of ancient > pages about this I

[dev] running dwm from/with gnome

2016-05-16 Thread Britton Kerin
I just replaced ancient laptop yes I hate gnome3 too now but having lots of other shit to do and already behind from this "upgrade" I can't afford break my whole system lose desktop icons etc all at once Is it possible to run dwm and keep my desktop icons somehow? I have most of my projects sort