Re: FVWM: problem installing fvwm

From: Ayan Mahalanobis <amah8857_at_fau.edu>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 13:01:28 -0400

szonyi calin wrote:
Usually in runlevel 5 (X) .xinitrc file from home

>directory is ignored (at least that's the behaviour on my
>machine) and instead the contents of .xsession is executed.
>The .xsession file _must_ be executable
>
>So:
>-- create a file .xsession
> echo fvwm2 >$HOME/.xsession
>-- make it executable
> chmod 755 $HOME/.xsession
>
>And it should work.(Works for me :-))
>If it doesn't work you must figure out the X startup sequence
>in runlevel 5 (see files in /etc/X11/xdm) which is not an easy
> task _or_ keep looking for an answer to your problem _or_
>enjoy runlevel 3 :-)
>
>Bye
>Calin
>
>
>
Tried that, doesn't work. Redhat won't read .xsession or .xinitrc or is
getting over written. How does one knows what it is doing just after it
starts X?

--Ayan

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Received on Sat Apr 12 2003 - 12:02:52 BST

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