Re: Dang .xinitrc
Re: Dang .xinitrc
- Subject: Re: Dang .xinitrc
- From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 13:34:32 +0100
Joseph R. Kiniry wrote:
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It all looks like a standard X install to me that happens to have an
icon I can click on. As near as I can tell, clicking on the icon
performs the exact same actions as running "startx". I get an identical
environment including all ssh agent env. vars and the like.
I don't know what startx script you are using. The one that comes with
Apple's X11 package starts up an X server OK, namely /usr/X11R6/bin/X.
But this X doesn't have an OSX interface, no menu bar, no preferences,
no way to quit from the GUI. This is not what I would call working.
OTOH, if you click on the icon, you get an OSX interface with your X
server (not that it is very developped yet), but the system xinitrc file
is not read, there is no standard way to choose a keyboard, and the
applications started from the GUI don't have a reasonable set of
environment variables (which was the starting point of this thread).
It is of course possible to write your own scripts, and I gave an
example on this list of a wrapper script that lets you click on the icon
*and* get a decent startup procedure, but this is highly non-standard.
OTOH, if you are only interested in getting a gnome or kde desktop up
and running, and you don't care about the interaction with OSX's finder
and desktop, then startx may be enough indeed.
--
Martin
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