> On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Gary L. Dolan wrote: > > > I hate to think that my version of 1.2 (now 1.3) is idiosyncratic, but the > > global xsession and the global xinitrc files are identical. I have attempted > > in my own halting way to parse my way thru the file(s), and the result > > appears to me to be that some resource files do not get read. I would be > > pleased if someone would correct my impression if I am wrong. > > > My second point is (possibly a bug). Shouldn't /etc/Xsession have $startup > defined as .xsession and /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc have $startup defined as > ..xinitrc? At the moment, both files have $startup defined as .xsession. Is > this a bug?
On my system (using XFree86 3.3-3, except for xbase, which is 3.3-2), /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc is a symbolic link to /etc/X11/Xsession, which is how you described it. So the global xsession and the global xinitrc are in fact the same file. My $HOME on my system only has a .xsession, but on other accounts, I routinely have .xinitrc a symlink to .xsession, so I only have to deal with one startup file. Perhaps it should be better documented that .xsession and /etc/X11/Xsession are the Debian way to do it. When I was figuring this out months ago, it was a tedious matter of chasing through man pages to find the config files that specified the start-up scripts, which were symlinks to the real scripts, etc, all to find out that I was looking for .xsession. -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects." -- A.L.A. v. U.S. Dept. of Justice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .