View Single Post
Old 14th July 2012
daemonfowl daemonfowl is offline
bsdstudent
 
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: DaemonLand
Posts: 834
Default

$ which xinit
Quote:
/usr/X11R6/bin/xinit
$ man xinit
Quote:
xinit - X Window System initializer
It has a front end : startx
$ man startx
Quote:
The startx script is a front end to xinit(1) that provides a somewhat
nicer user interface for running a single session of the X Window
System. It is often run with no arguments.
xinit can be used when you have many window managers that you'd want to choose from every now and then ..
When you make up your mind on one window manager for daily use .. eg : gnome-session .. you'd create .xinitrc in your home directory that overrides the default window manager (fvwm .. which is initiated with startx without arguments )
so :
Code:
$ echo "/usr/local/bin/gnome-session" > ~/.xinitrc
For golem : install it and start it either way :
$ xinit /usr/local/bin/golem
or by setting it as default so that whenever you do : startx it starts golem and not fvwm.
by creating ~/.xinitrc (again as user not as root) :
Code:
$ echo "/usr/local/bin/golem" > ~/.xinitrc
Reply With Quote