the .xinitrc and .xsession puzzle

[Alex Suzuki <asuzuki@bluewin.ch>]

Hello friends,

I wanted to ask you guys what ~/.xinitrc and ~/.xsession are all about.
I run Debian woody, GNOME and sawfish as my windowmanager (sawfish-gnome
package).
Somehow GNOME just can't remember its settings, and I think I screwed up
those files anyway. Which one gets read when I start X with startx?
I don't use a display manager like xdm or gdm or whatever.

this is what my .xinitrc looks like:

galeon -s &
xsetroot -solid black &
exec sawfish &
panel


This is what .xsession looks like

#!/bin/sh

xsetroot -solid slategrey &
xrdb -load $HOME/.Xdefaults
exec /usr/bin/gnome-session


Could anybody solve this puzzle for me? Can anyone with a similar
configuration (GNOME/sawfish) post his/her .xinitrc and .xsession?

Regards,
Alex
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