Rick Hawkins writes: > > one more, probably minor thing: with it set up for xdm, it ignores the > .xinitrc file in my home directory. am i missing something obvious? > When one uses xdm, the .xsession file is used instead. You can just have one that looks like: #! /bin/sh sh $HOME/.xinitrc (the 'sh' should not been necessary, but does no harm...). Yves.