On Wednesday 21 Feb 2007 18:36:59 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Wednesday 21 February 2007 13:19, John covici wrote: > > Yep, that does work, but I had no idea that functionality was even > > there -- the line was commented out in the file. > > That sets a systemwide default. As others suggested, the file ~/.xinitrc > might be used to choose on a per-user basis the X session to run (it has > to be created by each user who wants it).
Actually, GDM uses Xsessions and startx uses xinitrc files. If you look at the /etc/X11/xinitrc file, it looks for and uses the ~/.xinitrc file if present. Otherwise, it uses the system default of /etc/X11/chooser.sh, which uses the variable XSESSION. If neither of the methods works, it starts a twm session. Correct me if I'm wrong please. HTH. -- ---------------------------------------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net ----------------------------------------
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