-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > Are there any other differences that anyone else knows of?
No. > And why don't startx/xinit and the session managers just use the same > config file? Because they don't do the same thing. One is for when your X session is started by a session manager like xdm, and the other is for when X is started manually. This comes in handy for such things as, say, debugging why your X session won't start, or when X exits as soon as it starts. When this happens, often the only way you can fix the problem (because of X constantly respawning) is to log in remotely and reboot to a runlevel that doesn't use X. Then, to test, you use a fairly basic startx, and make incremental changes until you figure out what's broken. There are potentially other uses for having different sessions too. > Also, what other configuration files are of interest in a user's home > directory (esp. on a RH system). Isn't there some silliness > RH instituted with something like .Xclients or something? I may be mistaken (since I'm too lazy to go look at the standalone HP-UX box two rooms away from my desk) but AFAIK .Xclients is NOT specific to Red Hat; I believe it's part of the standard start-up scripts for both xinit (xinitrc, which can be in one of about 100 directories on Unix systems) and xdm (Xsession, likewise). Those programs prefer $HOME/.xinitrc and $HOME/.xsession, respectively; but if the respective file doesn't exist, BOTH programs will look for $HOME/.Xclients. The only other file of interest from the perspective of X, besides those three, which might appear in your home directory is the .Xdefaults file, to set resources. Well, there's also the .Xauthority file, but well-configured systems deal with that automatically, because dealing with X-MIT-MAGIC-COOKIEs is too esoteric for most typical computer users (and perhaps even most atypical computer users). - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8nsORdjdlQoHP510RAqBOAKCh37dGSWyTGm9iQEeisdDT3qpTcgCdGE4i jOdHBGwuFf/oa/kLFby8N80= =w8px -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
