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Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience



On 2014-03-22 20:14 +0100, Brian wrote:

> On Sat 22 Mar 2014 at 17:50:11 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
>
>> Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote, on 03/22/2014 16:52:
>> > In order to keep the output of the X-session when starting with the command
>> > startx, something like the following snippet could be inserted into the file
>> > ~/.xinitrc :
>
> This is the fourth or fifth time in this thread a recommendation to use
> ~/.xinitrc has been made. No sensible Debian user would have such a file
> in his account.

Care to elaborate why not?  If they use startx, I think they want an
~/.xinitrc.

> A happy Debian system is one with ~/.xsession.

I have symlinked ~/.xsession to .xinitrc, but there may be reasons for
having different content in these files.

Cheers,
       Sven


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