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Re: Window Manager doesn't start



    "Shyamal" == Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net> writes:

    Shyamal> startx runs ~/.xinitrc if there is such a file, but
    Shyamal> otherwise runs xinit. This basically results in the
    Shyamal> executions of the files in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ where
    Shyamal> your ~/.xsession file gets sourced. Looking in that
    Shyamal> directory is actually quite instructive.

Duh. That first sentence should have been "startx runs xinit with
~/.xinitrc if there is such a file, but otherwise runs xinit with the
systemwide..." 

It's all in 'man startx' anyway. I should've just said that ;-)

Cheers!
Shyamal



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