> <laugh> I understand what startx is. [...] > hehe, heck, i stopmed into the ambiguity trap. or my understanding of the english language is just that bad. :)
> Under xfree 3.?, I believe that the server was specified in > XF86Config. > nope ... XF86Config is the server's config file, not the file which says which server to run - and always was. > I'm not sure where it's specified under xfree 4.1. An admittedly > somewhat cursory look through the xfree documentation hasn't shown me > the answer. > there is nothing like that in x. most linux-distros provide some x-wrapper for convenience. otherwise you have only the program-specific binary specifications (xserverrc, Xservers, etc.). > Argh! First place I looked was /etc/X11/Xserver. [...] I assume that > file is a remnant of an earlier version of kdm? > not of kdm. it's a remnant of the old xwrapper (provided with older xf3 packages). > In the process of repairing that by forcing a reinstall, I also > switched from using the 3.? server to the 4.1 server but the Xservers > file didn't get updated. > well, thats beyond the scope of any automatic update because a) the different server versions are compatible at the x11 protocol level and therefore the x-clients don't care for the server-version and b) this would be somewhat complex to implement. greetings -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.
