On Sunday 13 December 2009 20:22:03 Dale wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I got mixed up with the various .fdi files in a previous thread, thinking
> > that this is what killed my X GUI.  However, it seems that the problem is
> > most likely related to rc.conf.  Has this file been done away with as far
> > as Gentoo is concerned?  I say this because I discovered that running
> > dispatch.conf after sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.13 substitutes /etc/rc.conf
> > with an empty file. Mind you, even if the file contains the previous
> > information about XSESSION xdm or slim do not seem to use it now.
> >
> > If this is the case, am I right to assume that the files in
> > /etc/X11/Sessions/* are not used anymore and the solution is to set up a
> > local ~/.xinitrc file for launching the desired WM?
> >
> > I am muddled up because I have forever it seems used /etc/rc.conf to
> > manage the XSESSION which xdm would pick from /etc/X11/Sessions/* to
> > start different WMs.
> >
> > Right now I have copied the contents of /etc/X11/Sessions/fluxbox into
> > ~/.xinitrc, added slim's /usr/share/doc/slim-1.3.1-r4/xinitrc.sample.bz2
> > and that's how I can get fluxbox to come up.
> >
> > What is the default Gentoo way these days of bringing up an X session?
> >
> > PS.  Is there a clever way of killing slim?  It seems that
> > /etc/init.d/xdm stop/zap won't kill slim or the X session that it starts.
> >  I need to manually run kill -9 to make it give up.
> 
> Well, I'm a KDE guy myself so this may just be completely wrong here.  I
> put my X stuff in /etc/conf.d/xdm and it tells what I am using for my
> GUI.  Again, I don't have Fluxbox and I understand it works differently
> so this may be as far off as Pluto.

Thanks Dale, 

The /etc/conf.d/xdm file, which arrived after the /etc/rc.conf days, is indeed 
used to set up the Display Manager, but not the Window Manager/Display 
Environment X session.  The latter was being defined in rc.conf, but this I 
think is no longer the case - hence I am asking here.
-- 
Regards,
Mick