On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 06:34, Khosrow Hassani <hassani...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > just got annoyed and decided to issue this warning about the X server > structure and documentation getting more and more messy and > mysterious. there are tons of man pages about the labyrinthic way > various X configuration files in /etc/X11 work and communicate with > each other. however, they don't tell you how to do simple > customization tasks! how do I change my default x window manager?
It depends on if you are using xdm/gdm/kdm or startx. If you have a graphical login, you are using a *dm, and they have a menu that lets you choose among your installed WMs/DEs. If you use startx from the command line, you usually just change the .xinitrc line containing your WM/DE. > how can one have x start a program, such as xscreensaver, globally (for > all users). man pages say, you can start them in your ~/.xsession. I > thought X would just append my xsession to the system-wide one in > /etc/X11. wrong! it only reads the ~/.xsession file and the desktop > environment (xfce4) doesn't load at all! I think it should look at both ~.Xsession and /etc/X11/Xsession, but I am not too familiar with it, as I use startx, not a Display Manager . Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
