On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 15:14 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 12:35 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 08:23 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > Look, we have been at this too long. > > > > Agreed. > > > > > switchdesk changes the > > > file .Xclient-defaults but that file is not sourced on my machine. If > > > you know how to get it sourced when you login I will be glad to learn > > > something new. > > > > And I've been trying to explain that I don't use switchdesk because I > > get the right result by editing /etc/sysconfig/desktop, which for some > > reason isn't working for you. > > > > I suspect that if you find out why switchdesk doesn't work for you, you > > will also find out why my method doesn't work for you. The answer may be > > to do with your X setup, not with switchdesk or /etc/sysconfig/desktop. > > > > This is what is supposed to happen on F9 (note that this has changed a > > bit since F8): > > > > Boot goes to state 5 > > ... which runs /etc/event.d/prefdm > > ... which runs /etc/X11/prefdm > > ... which consults /etc/sysconfig.desktop if present, and sets the > > desktop manager > > ... and then executes it. > > The desktop manager runs the login session > > ... then runs X as a child > > > > You might want to look at /var/log/messages to see what is actually > > happening. > > > > poc > > > You boot process stops to soon. Once you are in a login session we still > have the question of what window manager is launched when you login. > What do you think controls that? What do you think controls it? It's usually part of the X initialization process, which itself is run via xinit or startkde or whatever. The window manager is simply another X client. I say "usually" because you can have X running with *no* window manager. It's not terribly useful but it can happen when the wm crashes for some reason (in which case if you have a terminal open you can just start it again without ending the session.) poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
