Brian wrote: > May we look a little closer at one or two of the things you say? > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Because startx does not use .xsession. You have things criss-crossed. Oops! I was definitely wrong with that statement. > 1. Running startx basically runs xinit. > > 2. startx first looks for ~/.xinitrc which, unless there is a very good > reason, should not be on a Debian system. > > 3. startx now searches for the system xinitrc in /etc/X11/xinit/. This > contains the line > > . /etc/X11/Xsession > > and Xsession will use ~/.xsession if it exists. > > So startx on Debian uses .xsession :). However, it does not consult it > directly. Yes. My bad. I was confused! :-( Thanks for the correction. Bob
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