Re: [PLUG] two window managers

["Gavin W. Burris" <bug@wharton.upenn.edu>]

Hi, Carl.

Those directions are for the display manager, when you boot to a
graphical login.  If you want to use the text Linux console, please do
this:
$ echo "twm" > ~/.xinitrc
$ startx


OR switch back to runlevel 5.  :)

Cheers.


On Mon 04/21/14 11:06PM -0400, Carl Johnson wrote:
> i tried this. installed the packages, made the edit to .xsession and
> rebooted. i know the reboot wasn't really needed but i wanted to ensure
> that i didn't somehow have any open user sessions holding files open etc.
> after boot i discovered that it didn't work though. from a runlevel three
> prompt, "cat ~/.xsession" shows me that "twm" is in there. however, when i
> do "startx" now, i still get me a gnome session.
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Gavin W. Burris <bug@wharton.upenn.edu>wrote:
> 
> > Hi, Carl.
> >
> > I can confirm this works on CentOS 6...
> >
> > $ su -
> > # yum -y install xterm twm xorg-x11-xinit-session xorg-x11-xinit
> > # exit
> > $ echo "twm" > ~/.xsession
> > $ chmod +x ~/.xsession
> > logout
> > restart X11 with ctrl+alt+backspace
> > choose user
> > select "User script" option at bottom
> > enter password
> >
> > Yay, twm!
> >
> >
> > On Fri 04/18/14 10:57AM -0400, Gavin W. Burris wrote:
> > > Hi, All.
> > >
> > > I am using startx from a consle, no login manager.  That uses
> > > the ~/.xsession script.
> > >
> > > In CentOS 6, you can also use the graphical display manager.  You must
> > > first yum install xorg-x11-xinit-session xorg-x11-xinit and then you
> > > will get an extra menu at the bottom of the login screen after choosing
> > > the username.  It should have "Gnome" or "User script" as the options
> > > then.  Make sure to:  chmod +x ~/.xsession
> > >
> > > Cheers.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri 04/18/14 09:50AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Gavin W. Burris <
> > bug@wharton.upenn.edu> wrote:
> > > > > Watch out.  On different distributions you will alternately use
> > > > > ~/.xinitrc OR ~/.xsession as a user X startup script.  I know Fedora
> > /
> > > > > Red Hat / CentOS use ~/.xsession for this.
> > > >
> > > > This is what I was talking about regarding the confusing set of config
> > > > files for X11/etc.
> > > >
> > > > My understanding is that xinitrc should always be used with startx,
> > > > and xsession should always be used with a display manager.  I was
> > > > under the impression that there was no display manager involved in
> > > > this case.
> > > >
> > > > Gavin - are you using a display manager?  That is, when you start up
> > > > your system, does X11 show up and give you a login screen in X11, or
> > > > do you just get a text console, log in using *getty, and then run
> > > > startx?
> > > >
> > > > Most desktop-oriented distros use a display manager, and they will
> > > > completely ignore your xinitrc as a result (well, unless you switch to
> > > > a text console and launch X again via startx so that you have two
> > > > displays running).  However, if you're using a display manager it
> > > > might be easier to get it to just launch twm - there may just be a
> > > > setting to allow this, or even some cross-distro FreeDesktop way of
> > > > doing it.
> > > >
> > > > Rich
> > > >
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University of Pennsylvania
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