From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alexandre Russel" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: where to put my .xmodmap? Date: 22 Aug 2004 16:01:26 +0900 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093158659 23339 80.91.224.253 (22 Aug 2004 07:10:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 07:10:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 22 09:10:50 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BymV8-0004vd-00 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 09:10:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BymZW-0007Gs-KS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 03:15:22 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.tiscali.de!uninett.no!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pl724.nas926.o-tokyo.nttpc.ne.jp Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1093158086 23046 210.165.239.212 (22 Aug 2004 07:01:26 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 07:01:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124866 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20216 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20216 bkhl@elektrubadur.se (Björn Lindström) writes: > You'll have to start a window manager from the .xsession, since it is > now what xdm/gdm/whatever will run when you login. > > I appended mine to the end of my posting. ratpoison is my window > manager, you'll probably want have that line, but replace ratpoison with > whatever wm you're using. > > You can check what the rest of the commands are doing by reading the > corresponding man pages. After a lot of man reading I manage to make it work. I had a very bad understanding of X, window manager, desktop relationship. Thanks a lot, Alex