Doh! Right. Every time I referred to .Xclient-default in my
last message, I should have said .xinitrc.
Duh.
Miark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Premeaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Gnome/v7.2 question.
> The man for startx says that there is a file called
.xinitrc in
> the user's home directory that references the last xwindow
> session used and runs that one. If the .xinitrc is not in
the
> user's home directory, it uses the file called xinitrc in
the
> xinit library directory. I didn't find it in my home, but
you
> can find it in the X11 directories, also the bash file
that sets
> the configuration and indicates the last session settings.
>
> I was hoping to find a command option that would give me
what I
> wanted, but haven't located that yet.
>
> I experimented some and 'startx ?' didn't give me options,
but
> loaded up Icewm instead. I was in kde.
>
> Anyway, on with the search.
>
> Barry :-)
>
> > Now I'm curious. I went to my users home directory and
there is no
> > .Xclient-default file.
> >
> > I don't use a graphical login...
> >
> > So...how does my setup (Mandrake v7.1) know to boot KDE
when I type in
> > "startx"... ;-)
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > --
> >
> >
/\
> >
Dark><Lord
> >
\/
>
