FC6: starting a separate Xsession via startx or xinit. How?

Rob spamrefuse at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 15 11:22:17 UTC 2007


Rob wrote:
> Andrea Mastellone wrote:
> 
>>Rob wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I am "User two". I want to have a separate Xlogin
on
>>>VT-8. I tried that from a text terminal (VT-1) via
>>>'startx', but I failed.
>>>
>>
>>startx -- :1
> 
> 
> Ah, thank you, yes I tried that and it kind of
> works; with one important problem:
> 
> When I use the default Xlogin screen, I can choose
> XFCE as my session manager. However, with startx,
> I *always* get into Gnome !
> I've tried to put "exec startxfce4" in .xinitrc
> and in .xsession, but to no avail.
> 
> Is there a file in my home directory that makes
> startx going into XFCE?

Got it:
In the file ~/.Xclients I put:
 #!/bin/bash
 exec startxfce4

That's it.

R.



 
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