Kevin Brosius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Depends somewhat on how RH does X init.  You can look through
> startx and xinit setup and see what's being changed.  

Isn't the installer supposed to not replace xinit.rc if the file already 
exists? That is what the comment in the xf86site.def file says, but that 
would appear not to be the case?

> I know on SuSE that 'make install' breaks the KDM/xdm startup, and
> that they use a WINDOWMANAGER environment variable in their X init
> pieces. If you don't have that variable set, then you'll get
> either no wm or twm.  But doing a source install over your distro's
> install tree is really up to you to resolve. 

Granted, but since XFree86 appears to be starved for developers and 
testers, don't you think it would be a good idea to make it painless for 
testers to do a full build and install *without* blowing away their 
current system configuration? Might make more people willing to test 
XFree86 releases on their machines. One experience like I had for the 
average tester who just wants to help out is likely to cause him to re-
install his Linux distro and never run a 'make install' again ;-)

Regards,

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