Start X at console login with WM selection menu

Question

I was using CDM and wanted to, optionally,  start X at console login like CDM does but as a non root user, so I wrote a tiny script to do it:
#!/bin/bash
#xstarter.sh
WM_LIST=( ' ' 'Openbox' 'Antico' 'XFCE' 'Awesome' 'WMFS' 'I3' 'Subtle' 'Tinywm' 'Console')
TOTAL_WMS=9
#need to assign the $TERM comparison to a variable
#same goes for the console comparison
if [ $TERM == 'linux' ]; then
echo 'Please select one:'
for ((i=1; i<=$TOTAL_WMS; i++))
do
echo "$i. ${WM_LIST[$i]}"
done
echo ' '
read -n 1 choice
echo " "
echo "Your choice: ${WM_LIST[$choice]}"
if [ "${WM_LIST[$choice]}" != "Console" ]; then
xinit ${WM_LIST[$choice]}
fi
fi
exit 0
Just put it somewhere in your $PATH, make it executable and put the executable name in your .bash_profile like this:
[user@desktop ~]$ cat .bash_profile
. $HOME/.bashrc
PATH=$PATH:/home/user/bin
fortune |cowsay
xstarter.sh
It would then start automatically when you log in to a tty. and display a rudimentary selection menu like:
/ Memory fault -- \
| core...uh...um...core... Oh dammit, I |
\ forget! /
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
||----w |
|| ||
Please select one:
1. Openbox
2. Antico
3. XFCE
4. Awesome
5. WMFS
6. I3
7. Subtle
8. Tinywm
9. Console
9
Your choice: Console
[user@desktop ~]$
of course you would also need to  update your .xinitrc to handel the arguments correctly:
#!/bin/sh
# ~/.xinitrc
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
# exec gnome-session
# exec startkde
# exec startxfce4
# ...or the Window Manager of your choice
#exec openbox-session
#export DE=gnome
DEFAULT_SESSION=openbox-session
numlockx
xrdb load .Xdefaults &
xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr &
nitrogen --restore &
startserving.sh &
mpd ~/.mpd/config
mpnotify.sh &
fittstool &
case $1 in
XFCE)
exec startxfce4
Openbox)
exec ck-launch-session openbox-session
Antico)
exec /usr/bin/antico-deluxe
WMFS)
exec /usr/bin/wmfs
Awesome)
exec awesome
I3)
exec i3
Subtle)
exec subtle
Tinywm)
lxpanel &
xcompmgr -cC &
exec /usr/bin/tinywm
exec $DEFAULT_SESSION
esac
of course it may be totally useless to everybody but me :) But I still thought I'd share it.

Answer 1

I can login as a non root user but the X session starts with root privileges. Maybe it is designed to do so. I may take a look into it later.