Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Running SuSE Linux
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Michael Glad you mentioned .xinitrc. As I recall, you upgraded from SuSE 5.0. Well I just started with 5.1. I DON'T have an .xinitrc at all. I copied my Slackware .xinitrc over and X WOULDN'T START! Gave me an error and flat out quit. So I have to go with what they give me, if you know what I mean. Maybe we SHOULD RTFM, huh? BTW, try running /sbin/SuSEconfig after you make changes to /etc/profile. That logs in the changes, here BUT YMMV, as they say. Wayne Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Running SuSE Linux Date: Sun, Feb 01, 1998 at 07:46:52PM -0800 In reply to:Michael Perry Quoting Michael Perry (mperry@mperry.basin.com):
On Sun, Feb 01, 1998 at 10:29:51PM -0500, Wayne Topa stated: Another interesting thing with kde and SuSE 5.1 here. If I edit .xinitrc in my home directory to reflect exec kde I get kde but not the actual guts of kde. I get the windowmanager only but no functionality, if you know what I mean. I can only change windowmanagers by changing it in /etc/profile, logging out, and letting my profile be read again. I would like it if someone would explain how /etc/profile sets the windowmanager and why it cannot dynamically be changed. It seems to change the windowmanager one must edit /etc/profile, change it there, then logout and enter the console again. Is this correct, in essence?
Wayne
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