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

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Fri Jan 19 03:13:03 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?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rob.
> 
Try putting it is .xserverrc - looking at /usr/bin/startx, it looks
like that should set the window manager.

Mikkel
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