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From: Sergey Kish <sergey.kish@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] how to make p9p/rio the default window manager? (ubuntu)
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:08:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAqoAshOCGQgOwz_zjd7VxJsLkQ+fDmyyT+oWz9fKtutuD2xrA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHSQfyutx8Ph8yynXVsn=KBNTo9L+sdw5xVmrWBrGvzXbfyQ3w@mail.gmail.com>

It should be possible to omit GDM. Ubuntu used /etc/rc#.d/ now it's
replaced by Upstart.
In Arch it's as simple as

--- /etc/inittab.origin	2011-08-19 14:45:12.000000000 +0300
+++ /etc/inittab	2011-08-11 13:24:41.000000000 +0300
@@ -40,9 +40,10 @@
 ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now

 # Example lines for starting a login manager
-x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon
+#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon
 #x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon
 #x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon
 #x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >/dev/null 2>&1
+x:5:once:/bin/su sergeykish -l -c "/bin/bash --login -c startx"

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Salman Aljammaz <s@aljmz.com> wrote:
> You could put this in your $HOME/.xinitrc file (plumber and factotum
> are optional)
>
> """
> plumber
> factotum
> exec rio
> """
>
> It should run when you use 'startx'
>
> When I last used Ubuntu however .xinitrc seemed to be omitted from
> GDM. A quick google brings this up http://subforge.org/blogs/show/13
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-19 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-19  7:22 Skip Tavakkolian
2011-08-19  7:46 ` dexen deVries
2011-08-19  8:01   ` Jens Staal
     [not found]     ` <CAHSQfyv4p8NXWGnjsnWw_5Kiwvq4oUzWLgB2A5owJAN3e_pqPQ@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]       ` <CAHSQfytTBabNtJuVQpLLmoc-q6mmfHYrkvwJEFcmufNSTqPHRA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-08-19 11:27         ` Salman Aljammaz
2011-08-19 12:08           ` Sergey Kish [this message]
2011-08-19 15:11 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2011-08-19 17:21 ` Sasha and Tanya Kapshuk

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