guelfi wrote:The display manager usually redirects the standard error to ~/.xsession-errors, so if you want this behaviour when launching X from the console, start X with$ startx 2> ~/.xsession-errorsThanks for your reply. should probably have said something about my setup. I am using SLiM login manager with xfce. I start slim from daemons list in rc.conf.
I followed this thread to try and launch DWM via Slim;http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … on-solved/Here is my /etc/slim.conf;login_cmd exec /bin/sh - ~/.xinitrc %session
sessions openbox,dwmand here is my ~/.xinitrc;DEFAULT_SESSION=openbox
case $1 in
openbox)
exec openbox-session
;;
dwm)
nitrogen --restore &
exec dwm
;;
*)
exec $DEFAULT
OK, I've tried to pull things together from various other posts, but I'm still missing something.
OK, I've tried to pull things together from various other posts, but I'm still missing something.
I have Statler installed.I suspend my laptop and when I try to resume and turn up my computer the screen flickers twice and I'm asked to login (not in a login manager, just plain login) so I have to login and execute sudo slim to get back and login into awesome or openbox. So it's like I was logged out.
Hold onto your hats, guys, because this is easy as pie and kicks some serious butt.SLiM uses ~/.xsession, so that's where you'll add anything necessary for starting the WM you want to use.
Hi,So, I would like to login from the console with startx.I have created ~/.xinitrc;#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
#
exec openbox-sessionI have used rcconf to disable slim.Reboot and I am asked for username and password at the console login but...the password is not recognised!Do I need to completely remove slim?Is there a setting in /etc/init
Folks,
I have to install openbox on a clean Ubuntu that does not have any GUI yet.
The steps I had written down were:
$ sudo apt-get install xorg
$ sudo apt-get install openbox
$ vi ~/.xinitrc and create a line "exec openbox-session"
$ startx
I accidentally missed the step of creating ~/.xinitrc file and just ran the final step "startx." What I noticed was that openbox did s
I'm running Fedora 18 x86_64 on a system with a Nvidia GeForce 8400 GS videocard and the proprietary driver (xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-304.64-3.fc18.x86_64).
Sometimes, at startup, the Gnome Display Manager (GDM) login screen does not appear: the screen remains black and only the mouse cursor is visible; nothing else happens and I'm forced to reboot the system.
This issue has been occurring since I
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