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Old 14th July 2012
barti barti is offline
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the X Display Manager. xdm(1)


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default window manager in OpenBSD is fvwm(1). Fvwm is a good, general purpose window manager

I can't get the philosophy here, what is the difference between display and window managers?

The dispaly manager deals with hardware and window manager is the software?


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startx(1) looks for the file .xinitrc in the user's home directory. .xinitrc is usually a shell script, which can start as many X "client" (applications that use X)
so, Gnome is an application that uses X?

.xinitrc file is for X clients like gnome?




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When xdm(1) starts, it runs the /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession, which will check to see if the user has a .xsession file in their home directory. So, if you wish to change your default window manager
So , .xsession file is for the window manager?





So I need both files?
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