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I have been trying to change my window manager from the default cwm to something different (probably OpenBox).

Reading some articles online, it appears the configuration would be in the $HOME/.xsession file. However, this file does not exist.

ksh: /home/[user]/.xsession~: not found

Any help is highly appreciated, I am still very new to the BSD community. :)

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  • It might be as simple as creating the file, and putting two lines such as #!/bin/sh and cwm
    – Jonas Berlin
    Nov 4, 2019 at 8:06

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Usually, there is a system-wide default Xsession script, which will normally first check if a user has their own $HOME/.xsession or similar, and will use it instead if it exists; otherwise the system-wide script will implement some system-wide default.

The location of a system-wide default script may depend on which X11 Display Manager (effectively the GUI login screen, e.g. xenodm) implementation you're currently using, or if you are using startx to start the GUI session after text-mode login.

  • if you are using startx, the system-wide session script is either /usr/X11R6/lib/sys.startxrc or /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc in this order (first one that exists will be used). See: man startx
  • if you are using xenodm, the system-wide default session script would be /etc/X11/xenodm/Xsession. See: OpenBSD FAQ.
  • if you are using some other display manager (usually named like *dm), you should check its documentation.

Note that $HOME/.xsession and $HOME/.xsession~ are two different files, and the ~ suffix is a classic Unix text editor backup file indicator, i.e. .xsession~ can be expected to be a previous/backup version of .xsession if it exists.

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