> Your idea is sound. I'm opposed to merging XDM and startx too much. XDM > and startx already share too much to some degree. We need to make > considerations that someone running XDM will not necessarily have > choices of window managers before the session begins. It would be a big > plus if Debian did do that :) (and I have a script that does that)
There is a tool in the X11 contrib which allows you exactly that, it's called xsession. In addition you can preprocess the WM configuration either with CPP or M4 (yes, i know fvwm* can do this, but on the other hand twm and mwm can not!) and start applications from the menu bar, leaving you the mouse buttons free for more important stuff than launching apps. Cheers, Dominik =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Visit the FAN SITE of the WORLD LEAGUE OF AMERICAN FOOTBALL: <A HREF="http://www.uni-mainz.de/~kubla/WLAF/Welcome.html>HTTP</A> or <A HREF="file:/afs/zdv.uni-mainz.de/homes/UFO/kubla/public_html/WLAF/Welcome.ht ml">AFS file</A> access.
