Re: startx and xfce

[Nyizsnyik Ferenc <nyizsa@bluebottle.com>]

On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 21:21 -0700, 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."
> 
> There is no .xinitrc.

Debian uses .xsession. For example, my .xsession file contains:
/usr/bin/startxfce4

So my default desktop environment is Xfce. My wife doesn't have
an .xsession file in her home directory, so her default is Gnome.

> 
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc merely invokes
> /etc/X11/xsession and this contains no 
> reference to xfce.
> 
> Thanks,        ... Peter E.
> 
> 
> Desktops.OpenDoc  http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/
> 
> 
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                        Nyizsa.