Re: [Trisquel-users] netinstall; first timer's question

[dguthrie]

No, you don't have to edit the file. Let's imagine the following scenario. I  
run FVWM, and when FVWM is the only window manager installed, running startx  
on its own should begin FVWM. Now I want to switch to Ratpoison. I delete  
FVWM and install Ratpoison, then running startx starts Ratpoison. I believe  
it points to another file with the default Xsession or something (it's quite  
confusing in all honesty). There are several ways to start multiple  
environments. I can run startx ratpoison or startx openbox begin Ratpoison  
and OpenBox respectively (as far as I know those are correct). However it  
opens an Xterm and prints all the errors which can be annoying, especially on  
Ratpoison. So you edit the ~/.Xinitrc file to specify what startx does, for  
example this works: exec /usr bin/Ratpoison I'm not sure how ~/.Xsession  
works. Here is a forum posting about it:  
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/47359/what-is-xsession-for
You should try and look more deeply into the subject of X sessions. I am not  
very experienced with it, it's quite confusing.