[arch-general] moving away from gnome

[mike cloaked]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Andrea Crotti
<andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm getting very close to a final solution :)
>
> So now the only thing left to do is to make sure that these are executed
> (this is my .xprofile):
>
> if [ -x "$(which gpg-agent)" ]; then
>    if test -f $HOME/.gpg-agent-info && \
>        kill -0 $(cut -d: -f 2 $HOME/.gpg-agent-info) 2>/dev/null
>    then
>        GPG_AGENT_INFO=$(cat $HOME/.gpg-agent-info)
>        export GPG_AGENT_INFO
>    else
>        eval $(gpg-agent --daemon)
>        echo $GPG_AGENT_INFO >$HOME/.gpg-agent-info
>    fi
> fi
>
> source $HOME/.bash_profile
> xbindkeys -f $HOME/.xbindkeysrc &
> bitlbee -F -c $HOME/.bitlbee.conf
>
>
> Very strangely now even if the gpg-agent is not appearing to be on, the gpg
> key looks cached anyway.
> Is it the consolekit doing something maybe?
>
> So I'm not sure if I should move them to .xinitrc or to use GDM..
> Probably GDM would be easier and I can configure also the auto-login, but
> does it starts many other things that I don't need?

Would it not be easier to switch to KDM or one of the other login
managers rather than use GDM if you have moved away from Gnome?

-- 
mike c