[ydl-gen] Alternative Window Managers

[John Frankish]

At 00:53 29-07-08, you wrote:
>On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:08:05 +0400
>John Frankish <frankish at dubai.oilfield.slb.com> wrote:
>
>
> > >It will start right up.  This below is not needed:
> >
> > No, jwm does not start with the above in .xinitrc - the usual
> > E17 window manager starts except with an error about nautilus
> >
> >
>
>My fault for not being verbose, my apologies, the full .xinitrc
>will look like this:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>exec /usr/local/bin/jwm

Hey, no need to apologise - but I already had this and on my ps3 
running ydl-6 it will not start jwm, E17 still starts


> >
> > Sure - I was speaking about E17, there does not seem to be a
> > way to exit the window manager - you can shutdown, reboot,
> > logout, but I have not found a way to exit to a prompt...
> >
>
>Did you edit /etc/inittab to set your default runlevel to 3?
>
>Comment this line out:
>
>id:5:initdefault:
>
>and use this instead (or just change that 5 to a 3:
>
>id:3:initdefault:
>
>Shutdown and reboot and you should get a prompt and be able to
>exit from X back into it.
Ah-ha - OK thanks, I should be able to start jwm from here.



>Ron Rogers Jr. (CronoCloud)
>
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