On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 09:35:36PM -0500, Edward Guldemond wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:47:13AM +0100, Olaf Dietsche wrote: > > Well, it seems I should heed my own advice ;-). man xinit doesn't > > mention xserverrc, maybe this is a debian thing. But it does mention > > $HOME/.xserverrc; try to link or copy /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc to your > > home dir as .xserverrc and start xinit again. > > Actually, I noticed something interesting when I was testing this out > on my home box. When I used "startx", X didn't listen on TCP. When I > used xinit, it did. I guess that xerverrc only gets read when you use > startx. >
startx checks for the existance of files like xserverrc, and puts them on xinit's command line if they exist. xinit only looks for .files in ~, not system-wide ones. XDM/KDM/GDM use the same xserverrc files as Debian's startx. Debian's xserverrc includes -nolisten tcp, so that it's in effect by default unless you use a non-standard method of starting X. > I don't know if this is a bug or feature, but it's interesting none > the less. I think it's sub-optimal, but hard to fix without changing the expected behaviour of some programs. (Either making xinit look for xserverrc, or making X symlink point to a script instead of the server (actually, to Xwrapper, I think).) simple answer: just use startx or *DM unless you want to customize your X-starting setup. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]