[Tfug] wdm on Debian woe

[Jeremy C. Reed]

> anybody use the WDM (display manager) on Debian or a
> derivative?
> 
> I am running it on Mepis and it runs okay; but I
> cannot figure out how to run some personal dot file as
> my window manager opens. The customary way to do this
> is to create a file called 
> ~/.xsession
> that runs my favorite junk and then the last line says
> something like:
> exec /path/to/Xclients
> 
> but none of that seems to be available on the Debian
> port; and the Xclients file doesn't exist anywhere.
> 
> Thanks for thinking about it.

I have used wdm a lot on Debian (and others).

I just used ~/.xsession to exec my window manager. You don't need 
Xclients.

Did you receive any error message?