Re: .xsession not executing
On Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 07:06:44PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 1997 hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu wrote:
> > I tried to send this earlier, but i don't think anything got out.
> >
> > After reinstalling, my .xsession file isn't run. I've looked in the man
> > pages for x and xdm, but they don't say anything about permissions other than
> > to be executable. I've tried 700, but this doesn't seem to do it.
>
> try softlinking .xinitrc to .xsession ... I have one pointing to the other
> on my machine, and I can't remember which one it is that actually gets
> used, but it's working fine.
IIRC, .xinitrc is for startx, .xsession is for xdm logins.
It's usually most useful to link them together as you suggest.
Hamish
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