On 4/16/06, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I believe Matthew's point was that if you link .xinitrc to the > > system-wide version, you'll still get your .xsession file sourced, as > > well as a bunch of other setup scripts. I'm used to setting > > everything up by hand, so I've never really distinguished between the > > two, other than making sure that startx finds at least one of them. > > I agree to that, but the point of having a .xinitrc (at least in this > thread) was to start a wm/de on startx. And such customization does not > belong in the system-wide file, unless the admin wants to provide a wm > "just in case" or some other similar scenario.
Right, and startx will call /etc/X11/xinit/xinirc, which will call $(HOME)/.xsession . In my case, it would then call xrdb -load $HOME/.Xdefaults /usr/bin/fvwm2 It will also call a number of other things, that you might or might not want to have called. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
