Question about XDM

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Sun Apr 13 15:17:06 UTC 2014


Antoine Kallab <antoine at kallab.com> writes:

> On Apr 13, 2014, at 10:27 AM, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
>
>> Yes. If you look at that script some more, it only runs xsm if you don't
>> have a .xsession file in your home directory.
> Then if I want all users to use the same WM I have to add a .xsession file to every home dir that exists?

That would be one way to do it, but not the only way. Changing the
X11/xdm/Xsession file to do an "exec twm" instead of "exec xsm" would
be another. Another common approach is to add an xsession file to
/usr/share/skel before creating the users.


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