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Re: [Q] ~/.xinitrc is not being read



Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 03:05:04PM -0500, Vladislav Papayan x285 wrote:
> > I use now xdm to login into the system -- however
> > it seems like my ~/.xinitrc is being ignored.
> 
> .xinitrc is used for startx, and .xsession is used for xdm logins.
> I symlink them together here for convenience.

I believe that the .xsession script must also be executable. The first
line in the script should be "#! /bin/sh", then do "chmod +x .xsession" 
(or do this to .xinitrc if you use the symlink method)

- Sten Anderson
 


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