Re: X11 0.2 Startup Behaviour
Re: X11 0.2 Startup Behaviour
- Subject: Re: X11 0.2 Startup Behaviour
- From: Dennis Flanigan <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:16:02 -0700
On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 11:09 PM, Randy Ford wrote:
On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 11:27 PM, email@hidden wrote:
Since updating to X11 0.2, I now get 3 Xterms (one Login, 2 regular),
and Xclock starting with no WM.
Where is X11 getting it's startup arguments? Has this changed since
0.1? How can I return this to the one Xterm at startup? Please CC me
on replies, as I'm on digest. Thanks.
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
This is the standard startup file. It is only used if there isn't a
.xinitrc in the users home directory. X11 0.1 did not look there,
however: it always launched an xterm and the quartz-wm windows
manager. You can copy that xinit to your home directory and modify
it, or modify the system one. The bottom part, where there is twm,
xclock, ... can be commented out using pound signs (#). Add the
following to the end to get the old behavior:
xterm&
exec quartz-wm
In my .xinitrc I used:
quartz-vm
instead of:
exec quartz-vm
What is the difference ?
I hope Apple will ship a "corrected" xinitrc in the future. Fixing
X11.app to use the system one was really needed; however, most people
will want to run Quartz-wm by default.
The trick apparently is to chose the customize
button on the "Installation Type" Panel during the
install of X11. In that panel, select the "X11 Config" option.
This will configure X11 to use quartz-vm.
-Dennis
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