From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 3 15:23: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC8E437B405 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 15:23:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.aplusdata.com (64.83.13.117.dsl117-dhcp-orf.cavtel.net [64.83.13.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12B3743E6E for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 15:23:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anthonyabby@aplusdata.com) Received: from [192.168.1.100] [68.10.250.160] by mail.aplusdata.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.10 ) id A62FB6F00B4; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 18:22:39 -0400 Subject: Re: .xinitrc vs .xsession From: Anthony Abby To: Peter Leftwich Cc: FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: <20020903181611.K38772-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> References: <20020903181611.K38772-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 03 Sep 2002 18:18:48 -0400 Message-Id: <1031091529.19209.8.camel@laptop.aplusdata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 18:18, Peter Leftwich wrote: > Or is it .XSession or .Xsession anyways... I am researching what the > difference is between ~/.xinitrc and ~/.xsession and so far have only found: > > http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue28/tag_xdmthread.html > > ...as the best source (adding "site:gnome.org" to my Google search was only > mildly informative). Basically, is this site correct in saying that startx > people should have a ~/.xinitrc whereas those who use xdm should have a > ~/.xsession? > > I want to simplify, and also find a way to specify most of my setup (such > as window manager, placement of icons and files on the desktop etc) BEFORE > running startx (that is, by editing text and config files). Anyone? .session is used when using 'startx'. .xinitrc is used when using xdm. Anthony To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message