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June 10th, 2015, 10:42 PM
Hi folks,
New xubuntu 14.04 install here, instead of updating from my outdated 13.X. I don't want to upgrade again soon so I am sticking with LTS.
I am trying to completely change to using the window manager ratpoison, preferably executed via ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession . I managed to make this work through some combination of editing /etc/X11 files and other nonmaintainable surely-incorrect brute force type work in 13.X, but was thinking maybe I'd try to do it "the right way" this time. All of the posts I could find when I googled were for changing just the WM but leaving XFCE running, which is definitely not what I want to do - I want to replace XFCE as well as its WM.
The helpful "user defined session" dropdown from my 13.X install is no longer there via the login manager, so I'm not sure where to start. Further, the xubuntu 14.04 docs are pretty silent on operations like these. I suppose that by default I might just try disabling X and I'd be happy to login via the command line and startx, but I'm guessing there's a way to get the login manager to Do The Right Thing and I'm just missing it.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance for your help!
New xubuntu 14.04 install here, instead of updating from my outdated 13.X. I don't want to upgrade again soon so I am sticking with LTS.
I am trying to completely change to using the window manager ratpoison, preferably executed via ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession . I managed to make this work through some combination of editing /etc/X11 files and other nonmaintainable surely-incorrect brute force type work in 13.X, but was thinking maybe I'd try to do it "the right way" this time. All of the posts I could find when I googled were for changing just the WM but leaving XFCE running, which is definitely not what I want to do - I want to replace XFCE as well as its WM.
The helpful "user defined session" dropdown from my 13.X install is no longer there via the login manager, so I'm not sure where to start. Further, the xubuntu 14.04 docs are pretty silent on operations like these. I suppose that by default I might just try disabling X and I'd be happy to login via the command line and startx, but I'm guessing there's a way to get the login manager to Do The Right Thing and I'm just missing it.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance for your help!