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Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 16:59:36 +0100
From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
To: Nicolas Blais <eletech@netrover.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Problem with .xinitrc
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On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 02:37:53PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 06:02:33PM -0400, Nicolas Blais wrote:
> > Hi, everytime I use xinit (with no options), it goes fine, from there I
> > get the xterm and I load twm etc.  But if I make a .xinitrc file or I
> > load from startx it loads the x-window environment, then goes back to
> > prompt!
> > 
> > Is there a way to counteract this?
> 
> Send us your .xinitrc :)  There are things that could be causing your
> problem.
> 
> 	Scott

Sorry to followup to myself, but I did of course mean that there are
*several* things that could be causing the problem.

	Scott.

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