[GRLUG] Deskop Managers

[John J Foerch]

Lee Forest writes:
 > In Ubuntu. or at least 8.10 I can't find the inittab file to edit
 > whether or not I want graphical login. Plus I guess I would have to
 > freshen up on how to configure startx to load the window manager I
 > want....I believe it was the .xsession file in the home directory?
 > this is something I haven't done since my slackware days. course
 > ubuntu seems to have switched things around(god knows why) definitly
 > wouldn't be hard tho. I've done much more complex tasks. I just have
 > to figure out what ubuntu replaced those files with. But there was
 > mention of wmii. Anyone concur with this being a good replacement for
 > gdm on ubuntu 8.10? I've never actually heard of wmii before so its
 > new to me.

On my debian system, I run X with the xinit command, and my startup
script is ~/.xinitrc.  Perhaps someone can explain the difference
between startx and xinit?

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John Foerch