From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 3 16:27:17 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 7FD8037B400 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 16:27:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maila.telia.com (maila.telia.com [194.22.194.231]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A2CD43E72 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 16:27:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by maila.telia.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g83NR6O5008066 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 01:27:06 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-Recipient: Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h62n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.62]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA11410 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 01:27:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 77125 invoked by uid 1001); 3 Sep 2002 23:26:57 -0000 Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 01:26:57 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Anthony Abby Cc: Peter Leftwich , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: .xinitrc vs .xsession Message-ID: <20020903232656.GA75238@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Anthony Abby , Peter Leftwich , FreeBSD Questions References: <20020903181611.K38772-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <1031091529.19209.8.camel@laptop.aplusdata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1031091529.19209.8.camel@laptop.aplusdata.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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, Sep 03, 2002 at 06:18:48PM -0400, Anthony Abby wrote: > 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. The other way around. .xinitrc is used by startx, while .xsession is used by xdm. This is described in the manpages for xdm(1) and startx(1). -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message