On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 03:20:30PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Why you get different behaviour from xdm and start might be explained by > this: There's a script /etc/X11/Xsession that claims to be run by both > xdm and xinit (to which startx is a wrapper.) The script seems to look > for ~/.xsession only though. Maybe it isn't run after all from xinit on > Debian systems. That means that the comments in the file are misleading. There must be something more than this. Earlier this week i switched to XDM from startx. Now when i turn off xdm and startx instead i do not have any window manager running (i'm certain thath i didn't change anything in any of below mentioned files; almost the only thing that spring to my mind is upgrade of xbase to latest 2.0 <<from frozen>>) > > Anyway, the /etc/X11/Xsession script exec's either (and in this order of > prevalence): > - ~/.xsession if it exists; > - whatever windowmanager is listed first in /etc/X11/windowmanagers if > that file exists; > - twm (which always exists when /etc/X11/Xsession exists.)
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