On 10/9/24 17:09, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 15:55:35 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote:
That worked. Maybe ~/.xinitrc is an old location? I'll probably leave it
there unless there's a good reason to move it.
[algorithm from heck]
If reading this leads you to scream "WHY in the HELL is it this
COMPLICATED?!", know that you are not alone. Unfortunately, this is
only a small part of the picture. The full picture is even worse.
Wow. Thanks for explaining that. Fortunately, I only have Debian and plan
to change things as little as possible in the future, so I think that if I
leave things as they are, they'll keep working for a while. I do have
~/.xsession and I wondered why there are both. Maybe one or the other is a
leftover from fvwm.
Inference: Back when, several somebodies all did it differently. Then, when
combined they want backward compatibility until the dawn of time, and this
is the mess that results.
--
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool;
and he who dares not is a slave. -Sir William Drummond
