Re: startx vs. xdm

["John L. Cunningham" <djohngo@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 09:20:02AM -0800, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote:
> In the process of trying to make xmonad work I've found 
> that startx fails whereas xdm succeeds.  The logs are here.
> startx fails: http://carnot.yi.org/Xorg.0.log.old
> xdm succeeds: http://carnot.yi.org/Xorg.0.log 
> 
> My summary of the differences follows.
> 
> Any insights to direct further studies?

I would only note that startx and xdm don't necessarily look at the same
startup files.  xdm looks for .xsession and startx looks for .xinitrc.