Re: changing window managers
From: Adam Hardy (adam.ant_at_cyberspaceroad.com)
Date: 09/07/05
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Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:04:01 +0100 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Larry Fletcher on 06/09/05 21:19, wrote:
> In article <20050905201439.GA26723@alcopop.org> you wrote:
>
>>On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:10:11AM -0700, Larry Fletcher wrote:
>>
>>>After looking around some more I found out the x-session-manager works
>>>for startx, but it's not updated when new window managers are
>>>installed. The x-session-manager updates:
>>>/etc/alternatives/@x-session-manager
>
>
>>Why should the session manager symlink be changed by a window manager?
>
>
>>>The x-window-manager is updated when new window managers are
>>>installed, so maybe @x-session-manager should link to
>>>@x-window-manager?
>
>
>>No - x-session-manager should point to a session manager, and
>>x-window-manager to a window manager, respectively.
>
>
>>If you have a ~/.xsession file, you may have specified a window manager
>>in it.
>
>
> I didn't have a ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc file.
>
>
>>Otherwise, odds are the symlink from /usr/bin/x-window-manager is
>>being used.
>
>
> Okay. Now I see there is a difference between a session
> manager and a window manager. Apparently some window managers
> have session managers and need them to run properly and some
> window managers don't use them. The problem was I installed
> a window manager that didn't install a session manager and
> since the old session manager was still installed the new
> window manager wouldn't run.
>
> I also found it interesting that ~/.xinitrc takes precedence
> over ~/.xsession, and x-session-manager takes precedence over
> x-window-manager. So it doesn't work to use both ~/.xsession
> and ~/.xinitrc. The best option seems to be to put the session
> manager in ~/.xsession and not use ~/.xinitrc. And if there is
> no session manager, to put the window manager in ~/.xsession.
> Either that or learn how to configure x-session-manager and
> x-window-manager.
larry,
are you still using startx to launch the desktop? If so, how long does
it take?
I used to use metacity (default with sarge) and it took 10 seconds
maybe, and then I tried using others and it now takes 5 minutes.
It's the window manager which causes it to hang for so long, but I can't
work out what the problem is.
Adam
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