[Fri Apr 20 15:41:45 CDT 2012]

Nice video released by the Linux Foundation:

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[Mon Apr 9 12:12:19 CDT 2012]

My oldest son wanted to give a different window manager a try yesterday, so he quickly installed AfterStep from the Debian repsitories. He had seen it when doing a test-run of APODIO, a multimedia Linux distro, and sort of liked it. However, after installing it, when he logged out of the GNOME session, he couldn't see an entry in the main GDM window. Yes, the installer had added the following entry:

/usr/share/xsessions/AfterStep.desktop

Yet, the graphical login window still didn't show an entry for the AfterStep session. So, we solved it the old X way. I had him create a ~/.xsession file, make sure it was executable and add the following contents to it:

#!/bin/sh
exec afterstep

Once he logged out, then back in, he was running AfterStep just fine. {link to this entry}