Re: XFree86 setup!!!

[Will Lowe <harpo@udel.edu>]

On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Shaul Peleg wrote:

> Ok... I changed the server to XF_VGA16 and then I noticed that startx itself was
> pointing to xinitrc and xserverrc in /usr/X11/ - shouldn't it be reading it from
> /etc/X11? I have a feeling that the setup program won't work here because I screwed
> something up and will have to do it all by hand (not so bad). Thanks! -sp

I've attached the "startx" script from my system.  It goes in
"/usr/X11R6/bin".  A few notes:

1) /usr/X11R6/bin/X should be a symlink (made via ln -s) to the server you
want to use -- in this case XF86_VGA16.

2) You'll find that some files in /etc/X11/ and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 are
just symlinks to each other,  so that it doesn't matter which one you're
reading.

                     					Will

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#!/bin/sh

# $XConsortium: startx.cpp,v 1.4 91/08/22 11:41:29 rws Exp $
# $XFree86: xc/programs/xinit/startx.cpp,v 3.0 1994/05/22 00:02:28 dawes Exp $
# 
# This is just a sample implementation of a slightly less primitive 
# interface than xinit.  It looks for user .xinitrc and .xserverrc
# files, then system xinitrc and xserverrc files, else lets xinit choose
# its default.  The system xinitrc should probably do things like check
# for .Xresources files and merge them in, startup up a window manager,
# and pop a clock and serveral xterms.
#
# Site administrators are STRONGLY urged to write nicer versions.
# 



userclientrc=$HOME/.xinitrc
userserverrc=$HOME/.xserverrc
sysclientrc=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc
sysserverrc=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc
clientargs=""
serverargs=""






if [ -f $userclientrc ]; then
    clientargs=$userclientrc
else if [ -f $sysclientrc ]; then
    clientargs=$sysclientrc
fi
fi




if [ -f $userserverrc ]; then
    serverargs=$userserverrc
else if [ -f $sysserverrc ]; then
    serverargs=$sysserverrc
fi
fi

display=:0
whoseargs="client"
while [ "x$1" != "x" ]; do
    case "$1" in
	/''*|\.*)	if [ "$whoseargs" = "client" ]; then
		    clientargs="$1"
		else
		    serverargs="$1"
		fi ;;
	--)	whoseargs="server" ;;
	*)	if [ "$whoseargs" = "client" ]; then
		    clientargs="$clientargs $1"
		else
		    serverargs="$serverargs $1"
		    case "$1" in 
			:[0-9])  display="$1" ;;
		    esac
		fi ;;
    esac
    shift
done

serverargs="$serverargs -auth $HOME/.Xauthority"
xauth add $display . `mcookie`

xinit $clientargs -- $serverargs