Package: xbase-clients Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Xsession provides more customisable handling of user arguments to startx. While a non-path client argument is conventionally passed to the terminal emulator started by default (and thus cannot be influenced), there is no real reason to let xinit start a client specified by a full path when Xsession does a better job (and handles errors more gracefully). Please consider the attached patch, which causes path client arguments to be passed to Xsession (via xinitrc) instead of having xinit invoke them directly. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-9-amd64-k8 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, user, and author `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
--- startx.orig 2005-02-26 12:45:58.000000000 +0100
+++ startx 2005-02-26 13:10:02.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/bin/sh -x
# $Xorg: startx.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:29 cpqbld Exp $
#
@@ -51,11 +51,7 @@
# '' required to prevent cpp from treating "/*" as a C comment.
/''*|\./''*)
if [ "$whoseargs" = "client" ]; then
- if [ x"$clientargs" = x ]; then
- client="$1"
- else
- clientargs="$clientargs $1"
- fi
+ client="$defaultclientargs $1"
else
if [ x"$serverargs" = x ]; then
server="$1"
@@ -64,6 +60,10 @@
fi
fi
;;
+ failsafe|default)
+ # let /etc/X11/Xsession handle failsafe and default mode
+ xsession_mode=$1
+ ;;
--)
whoseargs="server"
;;
@@ -89,6 +89,9 @@
# if no client arguments either, use rc file instead
if [ x"$clientargs" = x ]; then
client="$defaultclientargs"
+ if [ -n "$xsession_mode" ]; then
+ clientargs="$xsession_mode $clientargs"
+ fi
else
client=$defaultclient
fi
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