[mythtv-users] [OT?] Ratpoison on Fedora 7 - b0rked?

[Ben Lancaster]

Hi all,

Has anyone had any success getting Ratpoison (from RPMs) to work on 
Fedora 7? I had it running fine on FC6, but now it's not working since 
the upgrade.

On the GDM login screen, I've changed the session to use Ratpoison, 
logged in, and after a few seconds, Gnome launches instead. When I login 
without a WM (just an xterm), and attempt to start ratpoison from the 
terminal, I get "ratpoison: there can be only ONE". Weird error huh?

I've noticed that F7 handles sessions differently (new Xorg perhaps?) as 
they now rely on the ~/.dmrc file. Mine appears to be correct as it 
contains:

SESSION_MANAGER=ratpoison

On FC6, I used ~/.Xclients* scripts or xinitrc. Neither of these seem to 
work on F7.

Oh, and my ~/.xsession-errors file doesn't contain anything useful:

localuser: mythtv being added to access control list
SESSION_MANAGER=local/{hostname}:/tmp/.ICE-unix/2979

Odd that the SESSION_MANAGER variable is different to the .dmrc. My 
guess is that ratpoison failed (perhaps it got the highlander quote) and 
reverted to the default?

Thanks in advance.