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From: Salman Aljammaz <s@aljmz.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 11:27:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHSQfyutx8Ph8yynXVsn=KBNTo9L+sdw5xVmrWBrGvzXbfyQ3w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHSQfytTBabNtJuVQpLLmoc-q6mmfHYrkvwJEFcmufNSTqPHRA@mail.gmail.com>

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



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-19 11:27 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 [this message]
2011-08-19 12:08           ` Sergey Kish
2011-08-19 15:11 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2011-08-19 17:21 ` Sasha and Tanya Kapshuk

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