<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 06:13, Jacek Generowicz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jacek.generowicz@cern.ch">jacek.generowicz@cern.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div id=":2vo">Personally, I can't work with the "everything else has to be restarted<br>
every time you want to try something" workflow. (I won't really be<br>
happy until I can do kernel upgrades without having to log out (How's<br>
the Hurd getting on?) :-)<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>ksplice, anyone?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":2vo">
<div class="im">> The other alternative is xinit/startx, which launches a server and<br>
> then feeds a connection to that server to a script which attaches<br>
> things to it to make a session.<br>
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</div>Any pointers on how to get this going?</div></blockquote></div><br>Log in on the text console (ctrl-alt-f1 from the graphical login); "startx -- :1". Have your ~/.xinitrc set up to run xmonad (as previously mentioned, you can simply link it to an existing ~/.xsession).<br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br>brandon s allbery <a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a><br>wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms<br>
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