Michael Fischer composed on 2023-05-15 23:08 (UTC-0400):
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
I run icewm and plasma5 concurrently and have for years. I start icewm from multi-user in a tty, startx /usr/bin/icewm-session-default and plasma from graphical
startx no longer requires "-- :[tty#]" at least in sddm
I'm using lightdm to spawn fvwm. I suppose I could try `startx /usr/bin/startxfce4` ? I'd still need to setuid on X itself for this, yes?
Once upon a time, when Stefan Dirsh[1] wasn't yet adamant that startx was unsupported, he wrote correct syntax to specify session to have startx run was: WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/bin/icewm startx Lots of apparent alternatives :p : # ls -Gg /disks/root3/usr/bin/icewm* lrwxrwxrwx 1 23 May 10 10:39 /usr/bin/icewm -> /etc/alternatives/icewm -rwxr-xr-x 1 1575040 May 10 10:39 /usr/bin/icewm-default -rwxr-xr-x 1 1562752 May 10 10:39 /usr/bin/icewm-lite -rwxr-xr-x 1 62888 May 10 10:39 /usr/bin/icewm-menu-fdo -rwxr-xr-x 1 13398 May 10 10:39 /usr/bin/icewm-menu-xrandr lrwxrwxrwx 1 31 May 10 10:39 /usr/bin/icewm-session -> /etc/alternatives/icewm-session -rwxr-xr-x 1 67880 May 10 10:39 /usr/bin/icewm-session-default -rwxr-xr-x 1 67880 May 10 10:39 /usr/bin/icewm-session-lite lrwxrwxrwx 1 25 May 10 10:39 /usr/bin/icewmbg -> /etc/alternatives/icewmbg -rwxr-xr-x 1 181032 May 10 10:39 /usr/bin/icewmbg-default -rwxr-xr-x 1 185120 May 10 10:39 /usr/bin/icewmbg-lite lrwxrwxrwx 1 27 May 10 10:39 /usr/bin/icewmhint -> /etc/alternatives/icewmhint -rwxr-xr-x 1 22736 May 10 10:39 /usr/bin/icewmhint-default -rwxr-xr-x 1 18640 May 10 10:39 /usr/bin/icewmhint-lite # [1] Stefan Dirsch is SUSE's apparent primary X & NVidia driver maintainer. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata