Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde
"Michael Marsh" <michael.a.marsh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/16/06, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > it's annoying to edit your own (linked, but still) .xinitrc as
> > root ...
> >
> > If it's a multi-user system, user settings belong to the
> > user's .xinitrc and not the global one.
>
> I believe Matthew's point was that if you link .xinitrc to the
> system-wide version, you'll still get your .xsession file sourced, as
> well as a bunch of other setup scripts. I'm used to setting
> everything up by hand, so I've never really distinguished between the
> two, other than making sure that startx finds at least one of them.
I agree to that, but the point of having a .xinitrc (at least in this
thread) was to start a wm/de on startx. And such customization does not
belong in the system-wide file, unless the admin wants to provide a wm
"just in case" or some other similar scenario.
Andrei
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