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stjepan

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Registered: 2006-07-02

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Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

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warlord

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Registered: 2007-07-04

Posts: 58

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

inittab and a second entry in grub for init 3 boot

dawei

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From: China

Registered: 2007-05-02

Posts: 29

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

I like the daemon way, because i dont need to touch any other file except rc.conf, this makes life much easier.

slackhack

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Registered: 2004-06-30

Posts: 738

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

startx (laptop) and slim daemon (desktop).

CipherPaladin

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Registered: 2006-05-18

Posts: 23

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

inittab I prefer for the same reasons listed all above.

...but I also have an ATI card in another box soooo:
kdm in DAEMONS... 'cos I think ATI drivers don't work well w/ inittab!
(please correct me if I've been misguided here!!! )

Last edited by CipherPaladin (2007-07-05 09:40:53)

smurnjiff

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Registered: 2007-06-25

Posts: 211

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

ATI drivers seem to work fine with inittab; I am using inittab for gdm.  I also keep a additional fallback init 3 option in menu.lst.

emmybear

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Registered: 2007-04-20

Posts: 38

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

I use inittab, just in case I am messing with X settings and it hardlocks the system upon startup. That way, I can just boot into run level 3, fix things, then move to run level 5, instead of having to use a liveCD. ;3

Gilneas

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 320

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

Back when I used dwm, I had to try out small edits to it every so often. So I had two seperate scripts, one to run the Xorg server (Xorg -noreset ...something something, also sets the wallpaper) and one script to start the wm. So when I wanted to try out a change to the wm, I could 'Quit' it and rerun the second script without Xorg closing or my applications dying.

Now I use icewm (but looking for something else), and I use a single script usable only from vc after logging in, that cd's to the homedir* and setsids xinit in the background, so I can still do small things with the vc (not big things since stdout and stderr of xinit write to it.)

*don't you just hate it when you start xinit/startx from another directory and every term you make starts in that directory?

tomfitzyuk

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Registered: 2005-12-30

Posts: 89

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

startx, sort of.

~/.bashrc extract

alias sx='startx -- -nolisten tcp >& $HOME/.startx-errors'

I know I can edit /usr/bin/startx to turn off TCP listening, but I prefer to do here.

~/.xinitrc

exec xmodmap ~/.colemak-1.0/xmodmap/xmodmap.colemak && xset r 66 &
exec xbindkeys &

eval $(cat ~/.fehbg) &

openbox

~/.xbindkeys

"xlock"
    Scroll_Lock

"scrot"
Print

"amixer set Master 5%-"
        m:0x10 + c:174

"amixer set Master 5%+"
        m:0x10 + c:176

"amixer set Master toggle"
        m:0x10 + c:160

"mpc toggle"
    KP_Enter

"mpc next"
        Mod2 + KP_Add

"mpc prev"
        Mod2 + KP_Subtract

"setxkbmap us; xset -r 66"
    F7

"setxkbmap us; xmodmap ~/.colemak-1.0/xmodmap/xmodmap.colemak && xset r 66"

Colemak isn't too tough to get used to. The most troublesome programs are vim (though I do have colemak.vim), nethack and starcraft, which is why I use F7 and F8 to activate QWERTY and colemak. I should write a script to toggle them and assign that to just one key.

Last edited by tomfitzyuk (2007-07-06 13:44:30)

platinummonkey

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Registered: 2007-12-02

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Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

slim + .xinitrc   (xfce4)

Allan

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Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

slim with inittab...  I screwed my laptop's xorg.conf so many times trying to perfect it that the fall back "ro 3" entry was very necessary.

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SiD

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-09-21

Posts: 729

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

I don't use a LoginManager.
Just automatically executed startx after login on first console.

~/.bash_profile

. $HOME/.bashrc
if [ "$(tty)" = "/dev/vc/1" ]; then
   startx -- -nolisten tcp -dpi 96
   logout
fi

Nihathrael

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From: Freising, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-21

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Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

ATI drivers seem to work fine with inittab; I am using inittab for gdm.  I also keep a additional fallback init 3 option in menu.lst.

I do that to. Works fine with ati here also.

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Sigi

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From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,131

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

I don't use a LoginManager.
Just automatically executed startx after login on first console.

~/.bash_profile

. $HOME/.bashrc
if [ "$(tty)" = "/dev/vc/1" ]; then
   startx -- -nolisten tcp -dpi 96
   logout
fi

I used to do the same, but after a system update a week ago (with testing enabled) this isn't working anymore. It seems like $tty isn't set anymore... What exactly sets this variable?

Cheers Sigi

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Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

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Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

if [ "$(tty)" = "/dev/vc/1" ]; then

I used to do the same, but after a system update a week ago (with testing enabled) this isn't working anymore. It seems like $tty isn't set anymore... What exactly sets this variable?

There's a difference between $tty and $(tty).  SiD uses $(tty) to grab the output of the tty app.

Me, I just use startx from console - I manually run it.  I also have startx aliased to 'exec startx' so that if I have the computer locked, someone can't just change to VC1, ctrl-C, and use my PC.   If they kill the startx process, it kicks them back to login.

ekerazha

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Registered: 2007-02-27

Posts: 290

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

Actually I use the ".bash_profile" autologin, but I think I'll switch to GDM because it can manage /var/adm/utmp, /var/adm/wtmp etc.

Maybe I'll use the DAEMON way... maybe the inittab way...

However if you use the DAEMON way and you don't use X anymore, just stop the GDM daemon and kill X... using the inittab way and switch to init 3 isn't the only option.

Last edited by ekerazha (2008-01-04 16:10:22)

signor_rossi

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Registered: 2007-08-24

Posts: 257

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

startx method here to be able to select between single and dual head setup (startx -- -layout single|dual).
I would like to use qingy for that like I did with Gentoo, but unfortunately I couldn't get it working right (path problems).

Bye, signor_rossi.

jb

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From: Florida

Registered: 2006-06-22

Posts: 466

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

Normally, I just use the daemon array.

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Phrodo_00

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From: Seattle, WA

Registered: 2006-04-09

Posts: 342

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Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

The daemons array, that way it starts all the not-necesary for-desktop stuff after I logged (such as ssh, samba and the for-testing-php-code apache and mysql)

Zer0

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From: Windsor, ON, Canada

Registered: 2006-08-25

Posts: 299

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

How oh how does a thread like this get resurrected..  I started this question in April 2007 

Phrodo_00

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From: Seattle, WA

Registered: 2006-04-09

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Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

How oh how does a thread like this get resurrected..  I started this question in April 2007 

so it was the same... it seemed strange to me that it would get resurrected, so I thought it was a new one (yes, I actually remembered this thread somehow)

Sigi

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From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,131

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

I used to do the same, but after a system update a week ago (with testing enabled) this isn't working anymore. It seems like $tty isn't set anymore... What exactly sets this variable?

Cheers Sigi

Btw, this works again. For some strange reason, my .bash_profile was missing...

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jonkristian

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From: Norway

Registered: 2007-03-09

Posts: 101

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Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

i log in, and type my l33t startx alias, 'x'

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dyscoria

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Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

Used to do it the startx way, but gleidson's darch theme for slim is just too immense to miss.

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SiD

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-09-21

Posts: 729

Re: How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

Same here.

btw:
I've made a splashy-theme based on gleidson's work.
It's in AUR. Pkgname is splashy-theme-darch