From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NJxR4-0002Tr-2p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:01:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA1D7E01A3; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:00:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BB22E01A3 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:00:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CFC5D4DD20B for ; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:00:55 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:01:33 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)? Message-ID: <20091213230133.1b4fdb09@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200912132044.00264.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <200912131830.37822.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4B254CEB.80808@gmail.com> <200912132044.00264.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3cvs39 (GTK+ 2.18.5; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/Iblat_67KndPEthK_AM8ffA"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: fbf531b9-bc7a-4535-864f-f557a38db73d X-Archives-Hash: 3f2ed0fa374dceacc8ff4be401898055 --Sig_/Iblat_67KndPEthK_AM8ffA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:43:41 +0000, Mick wrote: > 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. The DE/WM to use is specified by whatever display manager you use. Setting it in a global configuration file is pointless on a multi-user system. --=20 Neil Bothwick DOS never says "EXCELLENT command or filename"... --Sig_/Iblat_67KndPEthK_AM8ffA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkslck0ACgkQum4al0N1GQPlcACgj0LXelRqtmlOMo6Qd1QkK2+6 OBsAoLklut8tHxiEvcRs+FS3d8QKShwT =s40C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/Iblat_67KndPEthK_AM8ffA--