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Re: CLI challenged -> role of .xinitrc

Subject: Re: CLI challenged -> role of .xinitrc
From: Craig Sutherland <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:51:54 -0600

On Mar 18, 2005, at 4:08 PM, email@hidden wrote:


mj> To: Rich Cook <email@hidden>

mj> This is in my .xinitrc file:

mj> #!/bin/sh
mj> . /sw/bin/init.sh

I am under the impression that if there is a user .xinitrc file,
then it means the system .xinitrc will *not* be run, which is
often a bad thing since that latter init file does useful X11
stuff. Hence I make sure my ~/.xinitrc file ends with this line:

sh /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

Am I wrong on this?
regards,
-fred

If ~/.xinitrc exists, then it is used as the initial rc file rather than /etc/x11/xinit/xinitrc. Convention is to copy /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to your home directory. You edit the copied file to which you have permissions, leaving the original untouched.

Craig

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