Adam Siepel wrote: > > How X starts up can be a mystery. I use "startx" which uses my > > ~/.xsession. Others do the same and report ~/.xsession is ignored in > > favour of ~/.xinitrc.
The ~/.xinitrc file is read by xinit. This is a typical start when a user logs into the text console and then runs xinit. It is a step lower than running startx. startx calls xinit itself and passes parameters to it. > Hmmm. Tried that, didn't work with either xsession or xinitrc. I spent some > time wading through the startup scripts and it looked like I am supposed to > be using .xsession. There's also an .xsession-errors file in my home > directory that seems to be freshly updated on each login. [...] > any other ideas? Make sure your ~/.xsession file is executable. chmod a+x ~/.xsession Otherwise it won't be executed. It will be run 'sh .xsession' which uses /bin/sh regardless of your normal shell and it won't be a login shell. Bob
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