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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Windowaker and gdm
From:       Dan Stone <dan () headzofstate ! com>
Date:       2003-04-19 1:59:02
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> On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 18:12:54 -0700 dsoper@oregon.uoregon.edu wrote:
> > When using gdm, those dock apps no longer
> > start when the windowmanager is running.
>
> gdm doesn't read the .xinitrc. You could write the apps you want to
> start directly into /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/wmaker, but if there are
> other Users on your PC, they probably don't want, that your apps
> alway start, when they login. In this case, you should write the
> following in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/wmaker
>
> if [ -f ~/.wmaker-autostart ]; then
>         ~/.wmaker-autostart&
> fi
> /usr/bin/wmaker
>
> Now every you user can create a file called .wmaker-autostart in
> his homedir to specify which apps should load when wmaer is started

If I'm not mistaken, you can also just do the following:
	cp ~/.xinitrc ~/.Xsession

.Xsession is like .xinitrc, but for sessions started via 
xdm/kdm/gdm/whateverdm =)

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