Re: What's the Right Way to read resources on X startup?
Re: What's the Right Way to read resources on X startup?
- Subject: Re: What's the Right Way to read resources on X startup?
- From: Richard Cobbe <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:51:52 -0400
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:55:07AM -0700, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>
> On Jun 20, 2010, at 19:55, raf wrote:
>
> > hi richard,
> >
> > what i've always done on all x11 systems is to have my own
> > ~/.xinitrc (or ~/.xsession) file that gets run instead of
> > the systetem's default xinitrc. then you get to control the
> > sequence of things.
> >
> > for example, my ~/.xinitrc does the following
> > (among other things):
>
> This is very much not recommended by me because it means you won't
> benefit from fixes and changes to the global xinitrc. The recommended
> approach to customizing your startup is to use a ~/.xinitrc.d directory.
I'm perfectly willing to follow the recommended approach, so long as it works.
> Scripts in there will be executed after the system startup scripts but
> before the WM starts.
...but not, apparently, before the first client app starts. Usually.
Is this supposed to work? Or should I go back to using a single shell
script that loads resources then starts an xterm, put that shell script in
the app_to_run setting, and put XQuartz.app back in my login items?
Richard
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