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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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 11:18:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <358eca8f0912140318n49ca0305m7771b6833df1d621@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091213230133.1b4fdb09@digimed.co.uk>

2009/12/13 Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>:
> 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.

Thanks Neil,

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).
-- 
Regards,
Mick



  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-14 12:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-13 18:30 [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)? Mick
2009-12-13 20:22 ` Dale
2009-12-13 20:43   ` Mick
2009-12-13 22:14     ` Dale
2009-12-13 23:01     ` Neil Bothwick
2009-12-14 11:18       ` Mick [this message]
2009-12-14 12:22         ` Neil Bothwick
2009-12-14 17:00           ` Allan Gottlieb
2009-12-14 21:55             ` pk
2009-12-14 22:43               ` Allan Gottlieb
2009-12-16 19:16                 ` pk
2009-12-17  3:54                   ` Allan Gottlieb
2009-12-14 20:50           ` Mick
2009-12-14 22:45             ` Mike Edenfield
2009-12-14 23:02               ` Mick
2009-12-13 22:02 ` Mike Mazur
2009-12-14 11:17   ` Mick
2009-12-14 11:31     ` Mike Mazur
2009-12-14 12:22       ` Patrick Holthaus
2009-12-15  5:29       ` daid kahl
2009-12-15 15:38         ` Marcus Wanner

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