Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Michael Marsh
On 4/16/06, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I believe Matthew's point was that if you link .xinitrc to the > > system-wide version, you'll still get your .xsession file sourced, as > > well as a bunch of other setup scripts. I'm used to se

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:37:50PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > One can achieve that by putting ". /etc/X11/Xsession" as the first line > in .xinitrc Yep, TMTOWTDI. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/16/06, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > it's annoying to edit your own (linked, but still) .xinitrc as > > root ... > > > > If it's a multi-user system, user settings belong to the > > user's .xinitrc and not the global one. > > I bel

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Michael Marsh
On 4/16/06, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it's annoying to edit your own (linked, but still) .xinitrc as > root ... > > If it's a multi-user system, user settings belong to the > user's .xinitrc and not the global one. I believe Matthew's point was that if you link .xinitrc to the sy

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
> uhm no, .xinitrc will link to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, not the other way > around > > If you link, all changes are done for all users on the system ... unless the user writes his own .xinitrc If it's a single-user system, do as you like, it doesn't matter. > > and you can do changes only as

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Joris Huizer
Andrei Popescu wrote: "Matthew R. Dempsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 02:54:36PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: If you were using .xsession before, try: $ ln -s .xsession .xinitrc in your home directory. A better solution is ln -s /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc .xinitrc

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Matthew R. Dempsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 02:54:36PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > > If you were using .xsession before, try: > > > > $ ln -s .xsession .xinitrc > > > > in your home directory. > > A better solution is > > ln -s /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc .xinitr

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 02:54:36PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > If you were using .xsession before, try: > > $ ln -s .xsession .xinitrc > > in your home directory. A better solution is ln -s /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc .xinitrc so that the Xsession scripts (e.g. ssh-agent), are still executed

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Michael Marsh
On 4/16/06, Edward C. Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use a PC with an AMD Athlon64 3500+ chip and Debian unstable, i386 port. > > At about 6 PM (EDT) on April 15, 2006, I used synaptic to upgrade my > system. When I enter "startx" I now get some simple window manager > instead of KDE. An arti

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Willie Wonka
Perhaps (if you used kdm previously); # dpkg-reconfigure kdm could replace 'kdm' with 'xdm' if you used that previously also look into (google) 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg'. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protect

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Glenn English
On Sunday April 16 2006 11:48, Christopher Nelson wrote: > > How do I exit twm? On my system, the upper left corner xterm is labeled "login". If I go into that one and ctl-d, twm goes away. -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG ID: D0D7FF20 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:46:57AM -0400, Edward C. Jones wrote: > I use a PC with an AMD Athlon64 3500+ chip and Debian unstable, i386 port. > > At about 6 PM (EDT) on April 15, 2006, I used synaptic to upgrade my > system. When I enter "startx" I now get some simple window manager > instead of

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Edward C. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use a PC with an AMD Athlon64 3500+ chip and Debian unstable, i386 port. > > At about 6 PM (EDT) on April 15, 2006, I used synaptic to upgrade my > system. When I enter "startx" I now get some simple window manager > instead of KDE. An article in

Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Edward C. Jones
I use a PC with an AMD Athlon64 3500+ chip and Debian unstable, i386 port. At about 6 PM (EDT) on April 15, 2006, I used synaptic to upgrade my system. When I enter "startx" I now get some simple window manager instead of KDE. An article in debian-user suggested that X was using /usr/lib/x11/x