Re: .xinitrc (fwd)
Rob, I hope you don't mind. I'm forwarding this message to the list as
it seems relevant.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 12 Jun 1996 13:12:23 -0500
From: Rob Browning <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>
To: Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu>
Subject: Re: .xinitrc
Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu> writes:
> Here's an example of how I sometimes launch xdm:
>
> xdm -config /home/syrus/.fvwmrc -session /home/syrus/.xinitrc\
> -resources /home/syrus/.Xdefaults
>
> That way, the files in my directory are used for the configuration.
> I run this command from a script as root when I want to use xdm.
This is redundant. The default debian setup does all this for you.
Check out /etc/X11/Xsession. That's what debian xdm runs to start up
a session.
--
Rob
Reply to: