From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 11 10:51:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA12751 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 10:51:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA12742 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 10:51:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA10678; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 10:51:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 10:51:07 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Marcus Tse cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't setup the x-windows rc file In-Reply-To: <19971111054529.1834.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Marcus Tse wrote: > to anyone who can help me out: > > i have now setting up a X-windows system, but i have an > experience that my .xsession not work even i type as same as > whatdescribed from the xdm manpage. > > the experience is as follow --- > i have make up the .xsession file and make it excuteable. but when > ikey in the command "startx" or "xinit" it doesn't work and it flash > forto the xwindows screen with the pointer on it and hold it for a > sec.and flash back to the command mode . .xsession is only used if you login by xlogin, which you get if you run xdm on startup. If you use startx, you need to use .xinitrc instead. To simplify: cp .xsession .xinitrc chmod u+x .xinitrc Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major