From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 16 4:48:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4E1415001 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 04:48:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuyman@confusion.net) Received: from confusion.net (user-2iveai7.dialup.mindspring.com [165.247.42.71]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA03612; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 07:48:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <37E0D8C7.35DB6842@confusion.net> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 07:47:19 -0400 From: Laurence Berland Organization: B.R.A.T.T. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kweiss@austin.rr.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: xdm doesn't read in users .xinitrc References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok, didn't realize that, but I guess I kinda thought that from reading the Xsession script. For sanity's sake, and to not have to maintain two files, would it cause any problem to change the line in Xsession from "startup=$HOME/.xsession" to "startup=$HOME/.xinitrc"? Kevin Weiss wrote: > > If you're using xdm, should you be using a .xsession file? > > Don't forget to do a chmod u+x on the .xsession file...hope this helps > > -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. http://stuy.debate.net icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 The above email Copyright (C) 1999 Laurence Berland All rights reserved To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message