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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:27:13 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] how to make p9p/rio the default window manager? (ubuntu)
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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