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



On Sat 22 Mar 2014 at 15:02:58 -0500, Bill Wood wrote:

> On Sat, 2014-03-22 at 19:14 +0000, Brian wrote:
>    . . .
> > 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. A happy Debian system is one with ~/.xsession.
> 
> I'm a Debian newbie, so -- why?

We had a fairly full discussion on startx, .xinitrc and .xsession in
debian-user in December of last year. The Mailing List Archives for that
month have a record of it.


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