*- On 13 May, Pollywog wrote about "Re: Display issues"
>
> On 13-May-99 Brant Wells wrote:
>> Howdy :)
>>
>>
>> You need to start up a xterm session after you run startx. Do this by
>> going into
>> your $HOME/.xinitrc file and add a line in there somewhere before your
>> window manager
>> (usually the last line) to the effect of
>>
>> xterm&
>>
>> and then try to run those programs after you get into X.
>>
>
> I am a little confused by this. I was using an .xinitrc but changed to an
> .xsession after I had some problems and I found something in the Debian
> Tutorial which only mentioned .xsession. Does it matter which is used,
> .xinitrc or .xsession ?
>
>From the xdm man page
Then xdm runs the Xsession script as the user. This sys
tem session file may do some additional startup and typi
cally runs the .xsession script in the user's home direc
tory. When the Xsession script exits, the session is
over.
>From the startx man page
Note that in the Debian GNU/Linux system, what many people
traditionally put in the .xinitrc file should go in .xses
sion instead; the idea is that the user's X environment
should look and act the same whether startx, xdm, or xinit
is used to start the X session. All discussion of .xini
trc below applies equally well to .xsession. Keep in
mind, however, that X sessions started from xdm will com
pletely disregard the .xinitrc file.
So they(.xinitrc and .xsession) are the same but originated from
different camps(startx and xdm). The Debian way is to use .xsession.
To be safe you can soft link .xinitrc to .xsession.
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Brian
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