Re: startx and xfce
On 09/24/2006 11:21 PM, shark@gulfnet.sd64.bc.ca wrote:
Kernel 2.6.17 and Etch are installed here
and startx invokes xfce, all OK.
But how does startx find xfce rather than
xpdf or another X client? man startx
remarks that it looks for ".xinitrc in the
user's home directory. If that is not
found, it uses the file xinitrc in the
xinit library directory."
For Debian, that's not completely accurate.
There is no .xinitrc.
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc merely invokes
/etc/X11/xsession and this contains no
reference to xfce.
Debian uses its "alternatives" system. Startx (probably) invokes
/usr/X11/.../xinitrc which (probably) invokes /usr/bin/x-session-manager
which links to /etc/alternatives/x-session-manger which links to
xfce4-session.
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-package.en.html#s-alternatives
Thanks, ... Peter E.
Desktops.OpenDoc http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/
You're welcome.
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