startx in xbase-clients 4.0.[23]

[Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:36:34AM -0400, Warren Turkal wrote:
> Why does a construct like startx -- :1 not work anymore (ever since 
> like 4.0.2 or something)?
> Warren

It's a bug, and it's fixed in the 4.1.0 prerelease packages at the URL in
my .sig (and therefore will be in 4.1.0-1).

For your convenience, I have attached a fixed /usr/X11R6/bin/startx.
Replace your existing version with it, and keep a copy in a safe place as
any changes to the xbase-clients package will remove this version of the
file.

In the future, please address questions like these to the debian-user
mailing list.

-- 
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#!/bin/sh

# $Xorg: startx.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:29 cpqbld 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.
#
# $XFree86: xc/programs/xinit/startx.cpp,v 3.7 2001/04/19 15:08:32 dawes Exp $



userclientrc=$HOME/.xinitrc
userserverrc=$HOME/.xserverrc
sysclientrc=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc
sysserverrc=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc
defaultclient=/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
defaultserver=/usr/X11R6/bin/X
defaultclientargs=""
defaultserverargs=""
clientargs=""
serverargs=""






if [ -f $userclientrc ]; then
    defaultclientargs=$userclientrc
elif [ -f $sysclientrc ]; then
    defaultclientargs=$sysclientrc
fi




if [ -f $userserverrc ]; then
    defaultserverargs=$userserverrc
elif [ -f $sysserverrc ]; then
    defaultserverargs=$sysserverrc
fi

whoseargs="client"
while [ x"$1" != x ]; do
    case "$1" in
# extraneous null string required to keep cpp from treating "/*" as a C comment
    /''*|\.*)
	if [ "$whoseargs" = "client" -a x"$clientargs" = x ]; then
	    client="$1"
	elif [ x"$serverargs" = x ]; then
	    server="$1"
	fi
	;;
    --)
	whoseargs="server"
	;;
    *)
	if [ "$whoseargs" = "client" ]; then
	    clientargs="$clientargs $1"
	else
	    # display must be the FIRST server argument
	    if [ x"$serverargs" = x ] && expr "$1" : '^:[0-9]\+$' > /dev/null 2>&1; then
		display=$1
	    else
		serverargs="$serverargs $1"
	    fi
	fi
	;;
    esac
    shift
done

# process client arguments
if [ x"$client" = x ]; then
    # if no client arguments either, use rc file instead
    if [ x"$clientargs" = x ]; then
	if [ -f $userclientrc ]; then
	    client=$userclientrc
	elif [ -f $sysclientrc ]; then
	    client=$sysclientrc
	fi
    else
	client=$defaultclient
    fi
fi

# process server arguments
if [ x"$server" = x ]; then
    # if no server arguments or display either, use rc file instead
    if [ x"$serverargs" = x -a x"$display" = x ]; then
	if [ -f $userserverrc ]; then
	    server=$userserverrc
	elif [ -f $sysserverrc ]; then
	    server=$sysserverrc
	fi
    else
        server=$defaultserver
    fi
fi

if [ x"$XAUTHORITY" = x ]; then
    export XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority
fi

removelist=


# set up default Xauth info for this machine







authdisplay=${display:-:0}
mcookie=`mcookie`
for displayname in $authdisplay `hostname -f`$authdisplay; do
    if ! xauth list "$displayname" | grep "$displayname " >/dev/null 2>&1; then
	xauth add $displayname . $mcookie
	removelist="$displayname $removelist"
    fi
done


xinit $client $clientargs -- $server $display $serverargs

if [ x"$removelist" != x ]; then
    xauth remove $removelist
fi





if command -v deallocvt > /dev/null 2>&1; then
    deallocvt
fi

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