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Hello everyone!
First of all, I totally new to arch linux and more or less linux itself aswell. A friend of mine helped me installing the system and now I went on messing around with it on my own.
I am using GDM. Right now I am trying to have the xcompmgr start automatically at each session start, having difficulties to find the right file to modifiy.
I read through the wiki and there they say to add xcompmgr to the xprofile. Sorry for asking, but where exactly do I find that? I check my home-directory, no .xsession or .xinitrc there, only a .xsession-errorlog. I tried to include a line saying "xcompmgr -c &" in the /etc/gdm/Xession file, with different variantions (an exec in front, without exec, as last in the file, as second last in the file), but whenever I log out an in again, nothing ever happens. What am I missing?
Thanks for helping me!
Cheers,
Andy
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Copy the files you need from /etc/skel/.
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Thanks, copied the .xinitrc-file and added a line at the end saying "xcompmgr -c", but still no change.
I'm sure this must be easy, but I am still working my way through the concept...
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AFAIK, GDM doesn't source the ~/.xinitrc file. Since you are using gdm, are you also using Gnome? Gnome probably has a option to indicate what apps you want to start up at boot. However, I haven't used Gnome in a long long long time, so I don't know where that setting would be.
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Yes, I am using Gnome and thank you very much, that hint did helped! There is indeed a list of startprograms to which I simply had to add the comand xcompmgr.
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Good. please mark your thread as solved by editing your first post in the thread and prepending [SOLVED] to the subject line
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