[SOLVED] Question about DM's and WM's

SpidermanD5 · 2014-12-26 23:36:56

ok, so, i am not really a newbie, but im sure this is a newbie question. so im trying to run window manager's such as MetaCity and BlackBox, and i would like to also run a Display Manager, such as GDM (Gnome Display Manager) which is the one i normally use. i know that adding

# ...Or add any other Display Manager you want here.
exec metacity

to .xinitrc will make it start up, but i think that Display Managers may bypass the .xinitrc, though i may be wrong. i have a few Window Managers installed, but none of them are listed in GDM, only actual Desktop Environments. I have no clue what to do with this, but i do know that i want to have a window manager show up in my display manager, so that i can lock my computer if need be. i know a lot of people just simply use a Window Manager and dont bother with a Display Manager, but i would like to use one. any information or links to a wiki page i may have not found yet would be appreciated, thanks!

Last edited by SpidermanD5 (2014-12-27 00:15:43)

lucke · 2014-12-26 23:40:50

Look inside /usr/share/xsessions/.

I don't think DMs play a role in screenlocking.

Last edited by lucke (2014-12-26 23:41:51)

SpidermanD5 · 2014-12-26 23:44:05

i see all the Desktop Enviornments i currently have installed in /usr/share/xsessions/ but what would i do from there?

Trilby · 2014-12-26 23:44:16

SpidermanD5 wrote:

... but i think that Display Managers may bypass the .xinitrc

Some do, some don't.

SpidermanD5 wrote:

any information or links to a wiki page i may have not found yet would be appreciated, thanks!

What have you found? Each DM should have a wiki page, and probably a man page. That's how you'd find out how to configure them as they are all different.

SpidermanD5 · 2014-12-26 23:47:14

i am using GDM, Trilby, and i found all the Desktop enviornments currently installed on my System. but no Window Managers. I am looking into just using metacity or somehting similar, without any User interface so that i can, in a way, make one myself by installing all my own ui apps.

SpidermanD5 · 2014-12-26 23:49:06

is there some way to add Window Managers to the GDM list of DE's?

lucke · 2014-12-26 23:51:03

To put you on the right track, here is awesome's file:

$ cat /usr/share/xsessions/awesome.desktop 
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=awesome
Comment=Highly configurable framework window manager
TryExec=awesome
Exec=awesome
Type=Application

Replace awesome with metacity.

Last edited by lucke (2014-12-26 23:51:23)

SpidermanD5 · 2014-12-27 00:04:45

alright, that was similar to something else i had to do a while back. i now know i can do that with this. XD but, is there a way i can make it startup a terminal along with it?

Head_on_a_Stick · 2014-12-27 00:28:24

SpidermanD5 wrote:

is there a way i can make it startup a terminal along with it?

Add the command to ~/.xprofile:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gdm#Installation

Arch Linux

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