Re: Use xenodm like startx?

trondd <trondd@kagu-tsuchi.com> wrote:
> It's not really that complicated. The bare minimum is to copy your
> .xinitrc to .xsession and then just run xenodm on demand with doas. All
> the configs already exist in /etc/X11/xenodm. Nothing requires you to run
> it at startup.
>
> Here's what I've done:
> Copy your .xinitrc to .xsession
>
> Copy (or modify in place) /etc/X11/xenodm/xenodm-config to $HOME
>
> Edit xenodm-config and add
> DisplayManager*autoLogin: yourusername
>
> Comment out the call to Xsetup so you don't get the xconsole window
> !DisplayManager._0.setup: /etc/X11/xenodm/Xsetup_0
>
> Then you can alias it to run it on demand. Alias to startx if you want.
> alias xenodm='doas xenodm -config /home/myusername/xenodm-config'

Hm. Thank you. This works, except the environment in which I run xenodm is lost. For example, I have ENV=~/.kshrc in my ~/.profile, but this isn't inherited to X11 ... I guess I should add these things to my .xsession, but then I'll have it in two places instead of once.

> Only thing I never figured out is how to make X and xenodm shutdown when I
> exit my window manager.

This too makes me feel like xenodm is far too complex for what I want.