Re: xsession vs xinitrc

1998-08-11 Thread Robert J. Alexander
BG Lim wrote: > > Which is the better one to use with starting X, either with startx or xdm? > > BG > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null FWIW, I used to start X with XDM which is much more powerful but one day I moved my hard disk on a different system and XD

Re: xsession vs xinitrc

1998-08-11 Thread Will Lowe
> Which is the better one to use with starting X, either with startx or xdm? you don't really have a choice ... startx (and xinit) use .xinitrc, and xdm uses .xsession. One simple trick is to make one of those files and make the other a symlink to it.

Re: xsession vs xinitrc

1998-08-11 Thread David Z. Maze
BG Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BL> Which is the better one to use with starting X, either with startx BL> or xdm? startx uses .xinitrc; xdm uses .xsession. -- _ / \ "Dad was reading a book called | David Maze |

Re: xsession vs xinitrc

1998-08-11 Thread Ed Cogburn
BG Lim wrote: > > Which is the better one to use with starting X, either with startx or xdm? > > BG > Its not so much that one is better than another, rather they do things differently. xdm is run during system boot so that users never see a command line, they get a graphical (X) logi