Re: X won't start without .xinitrc/.xsession
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 05:45:52PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> I'm running XFree86 Version 4.1.1.1 on Debian (Sid) with a 2.4.7 kernel.
> This is a fresh install.
>
> If I create a .xinitrc in my home directory and put a window manager in
> it, X starts fine. However, without the .xinitrc X won't start. On all
> other systems I've installed, X starts without a user have .xinitrc, so
> I'm concluding that a default xinitrc is not being read. This also means
> that a graphical session manager (KDM is the only one I've tried)
> doesn't work either.
>
> I looked at /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, which I would have thought was the
> global xinitrc file, and it sources /etc/X11/Xsession.
>
> So I looked in etc/X11/Xsession, and I can't really make sense of the
> file, nor do I see a reference to any window managers.
>
> Can anyone tell me what I'm missing?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Kent
>
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