On 3/13/07, Andreas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried out many things yesterday and found the solution in the man page > of xinit: > startx simply uses xinitrc which reads ~/.xinitrc. I had not installed > xterm so far but in some cases xinit falles back to an compile time > standard an tries to run xterm as initial x client. I think that was the > problem. After installing the xterm there were no more problems yet. > The only thing I wonder is: why was the .xinitrc file ignored?
You're sure it was skipping your ~/.xinitrc? I've never heard of that happening. If you're really sure that's happening, you can turn on tracing in startx (it's just a shell script) and see what it's really doing. $ sh -x $XORG_PREFIX/bin/startx You'll probably want to redirect the output somewhere since -x makes things pretty verbose. At the end of the output you should see a command beginning with `xinit' that shows exactly how it's setting up the X session. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
