Re: [SLE] User .xintrc ignored ?

From: Jan Elders (jrme_at_xs4all.nl)
Date: 12/31/03

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 17:44:58 +0100

    On Tuesday 30 December 2003 23:32, Vic Ayres wrote:
    > On 30/12/2003 21:55, Jan Elders wrote:
    > > Hello world,
    > > Could it be that the .xinitrc file in my home directory is ignored ?
    > >
    > > Reason I ask is that I have added in the .xintrc file in my home
    > > directory the following (near the end of the file) :
    > > #
    > > # Add your own lines here...
    > > #
    > > xmodmap -e 'keycode 96 = EuroSign'
    > >
    > > However, after my user-session is started, key 96 still renders the F12
    > > function and not the eurosign.
    > > When I go to shell and give the same command then it works OK.
    > >
    > > So, my preliminary conclusion is that the .xinitrc file in my home
    > > directory is ignored at startup of the session.
    > > Is that possible ?
    > > If so, how could I remedy that ?
    > >
    > > TIA and HAND,
    >
    > As I understand it, .xinitrc is used if you login to runlevel 3 and issue
    > startx. If you login to runlevel 5, the file used is .xsession. Try making
    > a link from .xinitrc to .xsession and see if that helps.
    Well, thanks for the suggestion Vic, but .......... I forgot to mention that
    I'm running SuSE 9.0 and SuSE's SDB explicitely states the following :
    ===================
    Symptom
     SUSE LINUX 9.0 ignores the entries in the file ~/.xsession.
    Cause
     SUSE LINUX 9.0 only considers entries in the file ~/.xinitrc.
    Solution
     Write the content of the file ~/.xsession to the file ~/.xinitrc.
    ===================
    So, it really should execute .xinitrc, but it doesn't. :-(
    Cheers, 

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Jan Elders
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