From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 1 12:21:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53FED37B401 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 12:21:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78C5143E7B for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 12:21:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAFCA28F11; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 15:20:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 15:20:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Adam Weinberger Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: layers and layers of windows managers In-Reply-To: <20020901191222.GF56964@vectors.cx> Message-ID: <20020901151838.U37627-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Adam Weinberger wrote: > if it is startx with which you wish to invoke, give me a dump of your > ~/.xinitrc, please. i can show you mine if it'd be helpful. > -Adam I already posted that all I have in my ~/.xinitrc is this line: exec gnome-session My system does not have an /etc/X11/xinit/ directory nor default xinitrc file. I would like to control which desktop and windows manager is used from the command line rather than having to launch the GUI startx and changing it after XFree86 starts up. Thanks if you can help me out! :) -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message