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 1NJuxy-0007MP-4B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:22:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 46A10E07B3; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:22:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f187.google.com (mail-yw0-f187.google.com [209.85.211.187]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 212DAE07B3 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:22:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh17 with SMTP id 17so2510984ywh.2 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:22:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=4Noj4S2akNWY4d5t20E8XpqXvLXDQ+XOAtkN3kOAJM0=; b=fCtFBLUo6gRUjPkY8r8xVjy3smwLKDuwi/trEJLSI9OftI49pBHqWywDYMFMKpxO35 nwHYd4xvoN9foyxHA888+4noo0/iagp9db4hgn1x814aUna5bcnZ3hU9zVupT1zzF/fS zhSdxIbdJdG1B4I8emBSHwt/itiF0OTIspUlA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Lxr8x/VZ/Wo2kGLpgcCYoShLXXgDhx9U9Y8P+l0w4CM3swnFHGI8fsyg/PIQO9ng7E inzpY415x5hKgPytZqOiKj2UKf24VVbBQg42COrebjaW1XPBEImSAlt3u6oWEqnbvK2g 3SRQNTOtoTIRzUd8o4ex0jRMZSMgm4R3HDC3Q= Received: by 10.90.41.22 with SMTP id o22mr3880521ago.83.1260735728644; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:22:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-91-104.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.91.104]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm1818499gxk.7.2009.12.13.12.22.06 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:22:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B254CEB.80808@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:22:03 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091201 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)? References: <200912131830.37822.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200912131830.37822.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 09339bf5-5b71-4f56-aab0-3f6f89bea7f1 X-Archives-Hash: 09cd79b2a297543c282454773b1dadb1 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. Dale :-) :-)