debian and xfce?

Pander pander at users.sourceforge.net
Tue Dec 2 20:20:58 CET 2008


What are the window managers to have been reported to work on OpenMoko
so far:
- enlightenment
- icewm
- xfce
- ...

Jelle De Loecker wrote:
> Op dinsdag 02-12-2008 om 19:06 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef arne anka:
>>> /etc/init.d/zhone-session
>>> doesn't exist.
>> zhone-session is dead.
>> what is used instead is nodm, which is installed by default (even at your  
>> fr according to the ls).
>>
>>> my link: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Debian#XFCE
>> i think joachim posted a howto a while ago, search the archives for  
>> "nodm". it basically comes down to starting xfce from ~/.xsession.
> 
> Right, I'm using nodm and it works fine.
> I've also added my own user, so I'm not running as root all the time.
> 
> I did that following this bit (Skip the second instruction.)
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Debian#Running_X_as_normal_user
> 
> Then I only changed the username in /etc/init.d/nodm file (from root to
> skerit)
> 
> Then I created the /home/skerit/.xsession file:
> 
> xfce4-session &
> zhone &
> openmoko-panel-plugin
> 
> And last but not least, I had to add this to the /etc/hosts file:
> 127.0.0.1 localhost debian-gta02
> 
> I'm not using the matchbox window manager, btw. I had more problems with
> it then with xfce4's wm.
> 
> Greetings,
> Jelle De Loecker
> 
> 
> 
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