Re: Sawfish without Gnome

[Brett Viren <brett viren gmail com>]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz <jao gnu org> wrote:
>
> With .xinitirc in place, you can then start the X server from the
> console with the command xinit.

It's been a while to do things this way but isn't "startx" the better
command?  It calls "xinit" after doing some setup.

I used to use .xinitrc in the way you describe but have long since
relied on GDM.  Taking a fresh look at startx's and xinit's man page
now, it looks like .xinitrc is actually optional and one can do:

  startx sawfish

NB, I've not actually tried this.

Regards,
-Brett.