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Re: Window Manager doesn't start



Colin Watson wrote:

To my knowledge, startx has only ever used .xinitrc, not .xsession ... I
don't know why it used to work. Maybe you had a symlink in place at one
point?


man startx:
[...]

Note that in the Debian system, what many people traditionally  put  in
the .xinitrc file should go in .xsession instead; this permits the same
X environment to be presented whether startx, xdm, or xinit is used  to
start  the  X  session.  All  discussion  of  the  .xinitrc file in the
xinit(1) manual page applies equally well to .xsession.  Keep  in  mind
that  .xinitrc  is  used  only  by  xinit(1)  and completely ignored by
xdm(1).



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