Launch xmonad from KDM and set wallpaper

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I’m a bit confused, though I might just be being a doughnut…


cat /usr/share/xsessions/xmonad.desktop 
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=XSession
Exec=/usr/bin/xmonad
TryExec=/usr/bin/xmonad
Name=xmonad

This works fine to launch xmonad from KDM. And once inside I can “xpmroot ~/background.xpm &” to set my background. The xmonad instructions (xmonad : a guided tour) state that you should set that in your .xsessions or .xinitrc, but I don’t want to set things globally for X - I just want to do it for xmonad. I tried pointing the Exec line to a script that does both, but it doesn’t seem to like it.

How should this be done?

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I’ve read this thread, and it seems to imply it can’t be done.

Add New X Session - openSUSE Forums

Is that right?

Would I have to drop KDM, and use different start scripts from a CLI login? This seems odd…

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Well, I just set it in .xsession, which works OK.

Nevermind…