On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:26:24AM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > -| > -|Out of curiosity, I made .xinitrc a sym link to .xsession. Is this okay > -|?? Saves me from having to edit two files in case I change from using > -|xdm or starting X with startx... > -| > -|Regards > -|Hall > -| > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the ".xsession" file is used > if you boot up in a graphics mode (i.e. xdm, gdm, kdm, etc.) and > the .xinitrc file is used if you boot up in a non-gui mode and > manually run "startx" to bring up your desktop. A symb link on these > files should pose no problems.
Actually, I think on Debian at least, one only needs an .xsession file for both modes (other distributions are different). At least, it has always worked here. Should be that /etc/Xsession is always run, and it sources ~/.xsession. Check /etc/xinit/xinitrc (which is run by startx). -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
