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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!daffy!uwvax!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!se From: se@MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Different X Window Managers Date: 4 Sep 1995 18:49:41 GMT Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 26 Message-ID: <42fho5$atr@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <4273ma$v5@gol1.gol.com> <427cg7$6ns@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <428d4e$oqh@reason.cdrom.com> <42df6f$fd3@bridge.bloomington.in.us> <42dmo7$1km@reason.cdrom.com> <ARNULF.95Sep4124935@www.inf.fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: sysiphos.mi.uni-koeln.de To: arnulf@inf.fu-berlin.de (Arnulf Guenther) Bcc: se In article <ARNULF.95Sep4124935@www.inf.fu-berlin.de>, arnulf@inf.fu-berlin.de (Arnulf Guenther) writes: |> In the same vain: I've set up my system to launch XDM on ttyv7. |> Works pretty. Some twiddling with the files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm |> made a nice entryway so to speak :). But, I've got one problem: My |> .login wont be read. Instead I have to change my .xsession to do almost |> exactly the same job as my .login. Does anybody has a better solution |> than that. Yes. I've a set of xdm scripts (Xsession et.al.) that first execs a "login shell" for the user and then loads the window manager and other stuff. This makes it easy to have your complete environment available to programs startet from a window manager menu. Don't know where to put it, though. Doesn't belong into "ports", IMHO, but I don't know of any better place to put it ... Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/staff/esser/esser.html <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>