Re: Autostarting window manager specific applications

On 2010-12-31 20:01, goarilla wrote:
You'll have to consult the manual of your login manager for that
eg: xdm, kdm, gdm.

A lot of us still start our graphical sessions from a tty with
startx and startx calls xinit to execute $HOME/.xinitrc or sysclientrc (/
usr/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc), when the former is not found.
[...]

OK, thanks for your explanation and suggestion.


/August
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