From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 16 8:59:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt014nb6.san.rr.com (dt014nb6.san.rr.com [24.30.129.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB26D14E8A for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 08:59:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt014nb6.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA24366; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 09:31:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37E1164F.D9C5CAE3@gorean.org> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 09:09:51 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0913 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Laurence Berland Cc: kweiss@austin.rr.com, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: xdm doesn't read in users .xinitrc References: <37E0D8C7.35DB6842@confusion.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Laurence Berland wrote: > > 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"? Much easier to make .xsession a symlink to .xinitrc. That way when you upgrade your X you won't have to remember to make that change again. symlinks are your friend, use to learn them well. Good luck, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message