Re: strange session management stuff

[bbarnett L8R net]

On 01-Jul-99 Tom Gilbert wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 
Hmm.. that might do it ;)  I'll give it a try, thanks ;)



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