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Chapter 4, Related to X

#23 Spice Up Your Desktop with Creative Mouse Cursors

HACK

xinit

If you use the xinit command to start a window manager or desktop, add

-- -br to the tail end of the command. For example, if you want to start

the blackbox window manager with the

xinit command, do it this way:

$ xinit /usr/bin/blackbox -- -br

If you use the xinit command to start a new window manager or desktop

for a second user

[Hack #19],add-- -br after the command and before you

specify the next available virtual terminal. For example:

$ xinit /usr/bin/blackbox -- -br :1

The Xservers File

One or more of your desktop environments or window managers might use

a file called Xservers to determine how to start the X11 engine that drives all

window managers and desktops. In this case, log in as root and locate your

Xservers file with this command:

# locate Xservers

/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers

If you are using the XDM graphical login manager, this is the file you want

to modify. You can find the Xservers file in the directory for the KDE graphi-

cal login manager, KDM, or in the directory for the GNOME graphical login

manager, GDM. You might even find Xservers files in all three places. You

only need to modify the Xservers that is connected to your login manager.

Once you’ve found it, open the file with a text editor, and you should see a

line that looks something like this:

:0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp

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