Re: [SLE] User .xintrc ignored ?

From: Vic Ayres (vic_at_ayresonline.co.uk)
Date: 12/31/03

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 17:13:42 +0000

    On 31/12/2003 16:44, Jan Elders wrote:
    > On Tuesday 30 December 2003 23:32, Vic Ayres wrote:
    <snip>
    > > 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,

    Yes, as it happens, I saw that SDB article not long after posting my reply.
    But, as I was about to post to that effect, I also saw a post by Patrick
    Shanahan subject Re: [SLE] Crash has trashed init 5/startx [SOLVED]
    where it appears that it (SUSE9.0) does indeed reference ~/.xsession.
      

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