Re: Use xenodm like startx?

On 31.01.19 11:57, John Ankarström wrote:
> 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.

You could source either file in your ~/.xsession by adding a line like
this to it:

. ~/.kshrc

Depending on the settings you have in ~/.profile and/or ~/.kshrc this
might cause unwanted side effects. You have been warned.

>
> > 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.
>

Add the following line to /etc/X11/xenodm/xenodm-config:

DisplayManager.*.terminateServer: true

Cheers,
Bruno