On Mon 24 Mar 2014 at 12:37:36 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2014-03-23 21:06:55 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > Seems I'm a little bit old-fashioned ;-) > > According to the man-page Xsession(5) the system scripts take care of using > > a > > log-file, given that you indeed don't have ~/.xinitrc . > > So maybe the man-page of startx(1) has to be updated, since it only talks > > about > > ~/.xinitrc . > > Because startx runs the xinitrc (either the user's one or the system > one) and doesn't know anything about the .xsession file. Xsession files > (including the user's .xsession) are sourced via the system xinitrc. > Perhaps a section about Debian recommendations and default configuration > should be added.
There was a time when startx(1) contained the advice: Note that in the Debian system, what many people traditionally put in the .xinitrc file should go in .xsession instead; this permits the same X environment to be presented whether startx, xdm, or xinit is used to start the X session. All discussion of the .xinitrc file in the xinit(1) manual page applies equally well to .xsession. Keep in mind that .xinitrc is used only by xinit(1) and completely ignored by xdm(1). It is interesting that there is not a single reference to .xinitrc in Chapter 7 of the Debian Reference. The only use I can think of off-hand for a .xinitrc is to avoid using the Debian-specific Xsession if the system administrator has commented out "allow-user-resources" in /etc/X11/Xsession.options. -- 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/20140324124539.gl4...@copernicus.demon.co.uk
