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Ashren

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Registered: 2007-06-13

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Re: Display Managers, How Necessary Are They?

A very simple way to easily change between wm's without using a dm is this:

.xinitrc

# Put stuff you want to start before the wm above exec ...
exec $1

Then run:

xinit <name of wm executable>

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ANOKNUSA

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Registered: 2010-10-22

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Re: Display Managers, How Necessary Are They?

A very simple way to easily change between wm's without using a dm is this:

.xinitrc

# Put stuff you want to start before the wm above exec ...
exec $1

Then run:

xinit <name of wm executable>

How would you do this while still utilizing "ck-launch-session" and "dbus-launch?"  Would you just put those on the line above "exec $1" as well, or would you need to add them to the WM command when you run it from the command line?

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anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

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Re: Display Managers, How Necessary Are They?

Couldn't you just do:

exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch $1