[xmonad] Going Gnomeless (and Unityless on Oneiric)

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 17:11, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <rdiaz02 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:32:00 +0100,Jacek Generowicz <
> jacek.generowicz at cern.ch> wrote:
> > Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
>
> > > I have nm-applet and trayer working fine. I launch trayer and nm-applet
> > > from .xinitrc,
>
> > Now here is something where I'm completely lost: How do I choose
> > between .xinitrc, .xsession, startx, xinit, X, gdm, lightdm etc. etc?
>
> These are fragmentary notes (from fragmentary knowledge)
>
> I've always used .xinitrc, though I think some display managers want to
> see an .xinitrc; in some places I've read the advice to create a symbolic
> link (i.e., ln -s .xsession .xinitrc). But I could be missing some details.
>

Display managers use ~/.xsession

Command line uses startx, which is a wrapper for xinit, which uses
~/.xinitrc

It is common to link them together, but that isn't always the right thing
to do; ~/.xsession usually needs to do some of the stuff in ~/.profile (or
~/.bash_profile if you must) does, since it's not being launched from a
login shell.  Always doing the prifle stuff removes the possibility of
setting a custom PATH that might be necessary for certain applications but
that might conflict with other applications (matlab and some other
commercial packages tend to do this...).

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brandon s allbery                                      allbery.b at gmail.com
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