Re: Dang .xinitrc
Re: Dang .xinitrc
- Subject: Re: Dang .xinitrc
- From: Kow K <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 15:16:42 -0800
By any chance, didn't you check on "X11 Config" option when you
installed your Apple's X11? That option, which is set off by default,
would be likely to do what you described, but I think the default
installation of X11 gives more or less what Martin had described.
Or I am missing something?
Cheers,
Kow
On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 03:53 AM, Joseph R. Kiniry wrote:
Hi Martin,
--On zondag, 19 januari 2003 12:35 +0100 Martin Costabel
<email@hidden> wrote:
Joseph R. Kiniry wrote:
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Finally, unless you are using a program like SSH Agent, I always
suggest
starting X with one of the provided scripts (e.g., startx) so that
all
env variables, X resource database (xrdb) environment, X keymaps
(xmodmap), etc. are configured properly for the entire session.
Don't
forget that startx and the rest of the X infrastructure up to, but
not
including, the X server are just shell scripts. Reading them is
quite
rewarding in understanding how a given X installation hangs together.
In Apple's X11 package, startx doesn't work. Also xinit isn't used in
the
standard way, there is no systemwide xinitrc script. When started the
Apple way, i.e. by clicking on the Application icon, even XDarwin.app,
which is a lot more standard and transparent than X11.app, has a
special
hard-coded startup procedure which you cannot guess from reading
startup
scripts.
So while I agree with you that one can learn a lot from reading
startup
scripts, such general advice is often unhelpful in the realm of Mac
OSX.
I'm sorry, but I disagree with you. My startx script works great,
starts up my Fink gnome install, sets up keymaps properly, etc. on my
Apple X11 install.
I had removed my entire Fink X install prior to installing Apple's
X11, which I presumed cleaned out all startup scripts &c. Of course,
I could be wrong and I could be happily using the Fink XFree86 startup
scripts, but given the modification dates on everything in /etc/X11
match those in /usr/X11R6/bin, I suspect that this is not the case.
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.
Joe
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