Re: strange session management stuff

[Tom Gilbert <gilbertt tomgilbert freeserve co uk>]

On Thu, 1 Jul 1999 bbarnett@L8R.net wrote:
>The annoying problem is, I use sudo a lot.  I have netscape running as another
>user, I have x11amp (erm, xmms ;) running as another user, and so on.  The
>problem is, when I restart X, it attempts to run those programs as THIS user. 
>That's what's really causing the problem.  Also, its annoying to have things
>like xterms start up, but with nothing in them.... sure, I had 10 xterms
>running, when I was coding, and so on, but now they are all just empty xterms,
>with nothing in them ;)
>
>Anyhow, the whole point is, I don't want session management.  I do want to run
>gnome-session, because it runs all the other gnome apps.  panel doesn't.  So
>what do you do.. heh ;)  Is there a "everything but gnome-session" command that
>you can run.. so that I can do everything I want with gnomecc and still not
>have session management?
>
>If not, then session-management should have an option to turn off session
>management.. because its doing MORE than just managing sessions.  Its handling
>communication between gnome apps, its lauching the rest of gnome, in short, you
>don't get most of gnome's non-session management stuff unless you run the
>session management.  And that's annoying.  
>
>I guess I was just hoping there was a way to configure things the way I like ;)

hmmmm. Gnome without session management. Can be done methinks. Use a
~/.xinitrc which contains something like...

#######################################
#!/bin/sh
panel &
screensaver-properties-capplet --init &
background-properties --init &
keyboard-properties --init &
mouse-properties -init &
gmc --nowindows &
exec windowmanager
#######################################

instead of the usual "exec gnome-session".

Don't forget to replace the windowmanager with your chosen windowmanager.

Any help? Did I forget anything?


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