Related: admin, cook, cop, custodian, defense, farmer, govern, guard, guru, judge, knight, maid, mechanic, monitor, officer, police, root, sherrif, steward procs network temperature fan speeds disk time window (wm) Gedanken.Demon.co.uk/procmeter3 OpenWSMan.org >>Openwsman is a project intended to provide an open-source implementation of the Web Services Management specification (WS-Management) and to expose system management information on the Linux operating system using the WS-Management protocol. SBLIM.wiki.sf.net (Standards Based Linux Instrumentation)>>SBLIM (pronounced "sublime") is an Open Source project, intended to enhance the manageability of GNU/Linux systems. It does so by enabling GNU/Linux for WBEM, a set of standards defined by the DMTF and fostered by the WBEMsource initiative. ==Other stuff What is the display manager? What is the session manager? Login managers: WDM, SLiM.berliOS.de, XDM, GDM, KDM $ man xsession "' $HOME/.Xsession is a sequence of commands invoking X clients (or a session manager such as xsm(1x)). See the manual page for xinit and/or /usr/share/doc/x11-common/examples/xsession for tips on writing an .Xsession file. '" desktop environment: lxde.sf.net, KDE, Gnome, XFCE, CDE $ ln -s ~/.xinitrc ~/.xsession $ ln -s ~/.xinitrc ~/.Xclients $ sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start #restart gdm sample .xinitrc: +------------------------------------+ |#!/usr/bin/env bash | | | |xcompmgr -fF -I-.002 -O-.003 -D1 & | |devilspie & | |sudo killall -9 esd | |sh ./.fehbg & | |xrdb -merge .Xdefaults & | | | |export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome | |export LANG="en_US.UTF-8" | |export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" | |export LANGUAGE="en_US.UTF-8" | |export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" | | | |gnome-settings-daemon & | |gnome-volume-manager & | |conky & | | | |exec quarkwm.sf.net | +------------------------------------+ www.gilesorr.com/papers/otherwm/book1.html www.plig.org/xwinman FreshMeat.net/articles/view/639 cns.georgetown.edu/~ric/wm