On Sat 22 Mar 2014 at 21:19:59 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-03-22 20:14 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > This is the fourth or fifth time in this thread a recommendation to use > > ~/.xinitrc has been made. No sensible Debian user would have such a file > > in his account. > > Care to elaborate why not? If they use startx, I think they want an > ~/.xinitrc.
>From /usr/bin/startx: # This is just a sample implementation of a slightly less primitive # interface than xinit. It looks for user .xinitrc and .xserverrc # files, then system xinitrc and xserverrc files, else lets xinit choose # its default. The system xinitrc should probably do things like check # for .Xresources files and merge them in, start up a window manager, # and pop a clock and several xterms. If .xinitrc is found it is used. The system xinitrc in /etc/X11/xinit/ is not consulted. This means that none of Debian's carefully crafted configuration files in /etc/X11 are sourced. > > A happy Debian system is one with ~/.xsession. > > I have symlinked ~/.xsession to .xinitrc, but there may be reasons for > having different content in these files. The consequence of a symlink is described above. With two separate files .xsession is not used. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140323000356.gj4...@copernicus.demon.co.uk
