Re: More xinitrc questions
Re: More xinitrc questions
- Subject: Re: More xinitrc questions
- From: "Brandon Peskin" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 12:11:10 -0800 (PST)
> The fact that John put the whole path there might indicate that he
> didn't put "source /sw/bin/init.sh" into his .xinitrc. This would
> explain that icewm works and gnome-session doesn't, because ice-wm can
> start without a complete set of environment variables, whereas
> gnome-session needs to have /sw/bin/ in its PATH environment variable.
>
> The minimal .xinitrc for gnome would be
>
> source /sw/bin/init.sh
> exec gnome-session
I've just got a PATH statement directly in .xinitrc. This is how I've
always done it (that is, with X11 on PCs):
# windowmaker and various fink things live in /sw/bin, and I want to be
able to call
# various x utilities from /usr/X11R6/bin
$PATH:/sw/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH
[...]
# Run the quartz window manager in proxy mode so I can copy and paste
quartz-wm --only-proxy &
# Now run the window manager of choice
exec wmaker
--
Brandon Peskin
Lead Network Engineer
A-Link Network Services
(408) 720-6162/email@hidden
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