"Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/16/06, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > it's annoying to edit your own (linked, but still) .xinitrc as > > root ... > > > > If it's a multi-user system, user settings belong to the > > user's .xinitrc and not the global one. > > I believe Matthew's point was that if you link .xinitrc to the > system-wide version, you'll still get your .xsession file sourced, as > well as a bunch of other setup scripts. I'm used to setting > everything up by hand, so I've never really distinguished between the > two, other than making sure that startx finds at least one of them.
I agree to that, but the point of having a .xinitrc (at least in this thread) was to start a wm/de on startx. And such customization does not belong in the system-wide file, unless the admin wants to provide a wm "just in case" or some other similar scenario. Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
