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X Setup1999-04-30: SUSE 6.1 After several attempts to use SAX, I gave up and went with XF86Setup. That worked fine, though I had to give Horiz. and Vert. bandwidths for the monitor because it wasn't exactly any of the listed items. Once I chose the default mode (-bpp 16, 1024x768), the test was a little off to the right. I tried using vidtune to fix that, but the monitor seemed to be compensating for my efforts. So I aborted vidtune and just used the monitor's controls (and then saved the resulting configuration). That seems to have worked.
Window ManagerI spent a day or so trying the options. A few comments:Control is via .xsession, which includes various checks and defaults. Then it either runs .xinit, or kicks off a window manager directly. E.g.: # Read system and user profile if not already done # if test "$XSESSION_IS_UP" != "yes" ; then test -r /etc/profile && { . /etc/profile > /dev/null 2>&1 ; } test -r ${HOME}/.bashrc && { . ${HOME}/.bashrc > /dev/null 2>&1 ; } test -r ${HOME}/.profile && { . ${HOME}/.profile > /dev/null 2>&1 ; } set +u > /dev/null 2>&1 fi ... if test -f $HOME/.xinitrc ; then if test "$sshagent" = "yes" ; then exec ssh-agent $HOME/.xinitrc else exec /bin/bash $HOME/.xinitrc fi else if test -z "$WINDOWMANAGER" ; then WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/kde fi exec $WINDOWMANAGER fi In other words, the default is KDE, but that can be overridden by setting WINDOWMANAGER in .bashrc: export WINDOWMANAGER=fvwm2 In either case, you end up executing the windowing binary, from /usr/X11R6/bin.
...Edited ~/.fvwm2rc to taste. Turned off the fvwm2 banner, the xeyes, and the pine mailreader. Set to 4x2 virtual consoles. See .fvwmr2
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Creator: Harry George Updated/Created: 2001-01-07 |