Bug#499594: marked as done (xinit: broken for direct usage)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #499594,
regarding xinit: broken for direct usage
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Package: xinit
Version: 1.0.9-2
Severity: important
Hello,
According to the man page I should be able to do something like
xinit gmplayer
but I get:
xinit: No such file of directory (errno 2): no program named xterm in PATH
But I didn't try to start xterm! Even if I try to work around this (which seems
to be #297003) by creating an xterm symlink xinit is trying to append the
string 'gmplayer' as an argument to 'xterm'.
I'm guessing in this era of display managers not many people are using xinit
directly, but this is valid usage of the program and is completely broken.
Regards,
Andrei
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ro_RO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ro_RO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages xinit depends on:
ii cpp 4:4.3.2-1 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-1 X11 client-side library
xinit recommends no packages.
xinit suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:42:44 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> According to the man page I should be able to do something like
>
> xinit gmplayer
>
No. You need to give the full path to the client, otherwise it gets
parsed as an option for the default client.
Use 'xinit /usr/bin/gmplayer'.
The manpage says:
Both the client program name and the server program name must begin
with a slash (/) or a period (.). Otherwise, they are treated as an
arguments to be appended to their respective startup lines. This makes
it possible to add arguments (for example, foreground and background
colors) without having to retype the whole command line.
Cheers,
Julien
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