From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dexen deVries To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:46:00 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/3.1.0-rc2-l37+; KDE/4.5.5; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <201108190946.01885.dexen.devries@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] how to make p9p/rio the default window manager? (ubuntu) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1469da90-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Friday 19 of August 2011 09:22:05 Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > anyone know the proper way of doing this so it doesn't involve a lot > of killing after every login? not sure about Ubuntu, but in Slackware there's /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc scri= pt=20 which gets executed after login and is responsible for starting up the wind= ow=20 manager and aux programs. Usually that's a symlink to either xinitrc.kde or= =20 xinitrc.twm. I would: # cd /etc/X11/xinit/ # cp xinitrc.twm xinitrc.rio # E xinitrc.rio (or vi xinitrc.rio, if you wish) # rm xinitrc; ln -s xinitrc.rio xinitrc coil!dexen!/etc/X11/xinit $ diff -burN xinitrc.twm xinitrc.rio=20 =2D-- xinitrc.twm 2011-08-19 09:44:02.435802566 +0200 +++ xinitrc.rio 2011-08-19 09:44:19.441801567 +0200 @@ -26,8 +26,4 @@ =20 # start some nice programs =20 =2D/usr/bin/twm & =2D/usr/bin/xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 & =2D/usr/bin/xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 & =2D/usr/bin/xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 & =2Dexec /usr/bin/xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login +exec $PLAN9/bin/twm & =2D-=20 dexen deVries [[[=E2=86=93][=E2=86=92]]] =46or example, if the first thing in the file is: an XML parser will recognize that the document is stored in the traditional= =20 ROT13 encoding. (( Joe English, http://www.flightlab.com/~joe/sgml/faq-not.txt ))