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 1NKJ6i-0002jL-PK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:09:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C7BD0E0D7D for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:09:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.154]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C12A1E0DF0 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:50:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so124933fgg.10 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:50:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=jrC9iH2rlmfDkieqmY3oqTknh8OxwIh8RbuqmErq2XI=; b=JhxkGv0mQfRnqO7xO4an26qNwY6zfjkPs+zko9uCgClLNuIIDuDSP40zoycXmg+BYk TNV1qfl8tM3WOm6/fleHyR/7W0roa/fjwO7RmW3tNuwfeSdFEIA9UqKwyvXr6PM8kbxt fPg0xJXLheO+4nCMNLrmprzlEXJ6rtZJhY2qA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=OBn58YOtj3M+uOBUhkqrOJNGPaf4cd4bYX27ZPV8IK15OuV4wpTifEE5zbwXCq1kNq 6ajUqeLKFtd+mmaMaVQ/qwdYcz2zfacPj+Ob3MQf7/ODi051yuDDFvIDXl3D8afYcm+x 83BhgoBaL33VdqpKWZswWjvY4eqJCYHoUQ6Co= Received: by 10.87.45.13 with SMTP id x13mr6699474fgj.70.1260823815720; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:50:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 3sm6569795fge.10.2009.12.14.12.50.14 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:50:14 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)? Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:50:10 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.3 (Linux/2.6.31-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.3.3; i686; ; ) References: <200912131830.37822.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <358eca8f0912140318n49ca0305m7771b6833df1d621@mail.gmail.com> <20091214122242.1a325dc4@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20091214122242.1a325dc4@digimed.co.uk> 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; boundary="nextPart2053397.ls1FoJpFXt"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200912142050.13209.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: c4b98d05-9d3b-4760-a177-16628a13a89b X-Archives-Hash: 0fc501badd3f09dc5667d8bfce7e9e65 --nextPart2053397.ls1FoJpFXt Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 14 December 2009 12:22:42 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:18:56 +0000, Mick wrote: > > > 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. > > > > So, where would you specify which DE/WM session the xdm Display > > Manager will load up for a specific user in a Gentoo set up? > > (assuming that there is such a thing as a Gentoo default way of doing > > this). >=20 > I used xdm once, that was more than enough. gdm and kdm both have options > to do this, as did the one whose name I cannot remember that I tried > once. Alternatively, you can use the XSESSION environment variable or use > the standard .xinitrc/.xsession way of doing things. I'd either do that > latter or use a more flexible display manager, I find xdm horrible. You're right, although xdm can be beautified if you have the time or=20 inclination to look into /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources. When I am looking for my XSESSION I get nothing: $ echo $SESSION How do I set this up, other than Mike's suggestion of '/etc/env.d/90xsessio= n'? =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2053397.ls1FoJpFXt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAksmpQUACgkQVTDTR3kpaLa0+ACfYE+UWDVwi1E0W8+u7ONk6l5b fOcAoKhpezd94u7PMbZbx6XT/LgWo/Lw =nM2h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2053397.ls1FoJpFXt--