On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 08:43:29PM -0600, Nathan Ingersoll wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Patrice LaFlamme wrote: > > > small correction: .xinitrc for startx, and .xsession for xdm, wdm, gdm, > > etc.. > > And .xsession must be executable. > > I always wondered what the difference was supposed to be between those files. > On most systems I've seen .xinitrc is just symlink to .xsession so that the > behavior is the same regardless of whether startx or *dm are used.
there is no logical difference between these files, which is why debian just uses .xsession for both startx and [xwkg]dm. but .xinitrc will still be respected if you have some reason for using it. otherwise just setup .xsession the way you like it and rm -f ~/.xinitrc -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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