On Thursday, February 7, 2002, at 10:42 , Rolf Arands wrote:
> Problem is, I didn't get this file upon installation, so I have no idea > what should go in there. Can someone post the contents of a typical > ".xinitrc" file that I could then add to my $HOME? It's probably > simple ... I just don't know what is actually in this file. OK I just navigated on the file tree and found this file: /usr/X11R6/etc/xinit/xinitrc, you can copy that one to your home adding a dot: cp /usr/X11R6/etc/xinit/xinitrc $HOME/.xinitrc (maybe you need to add sudo) you can remove everything after #start some nice program and add exec YOUR_WINDOW_MANAGER & My .xinitrc is simpler (& a little bit more buggy also) it contains : PATH ="$PATH: /sw/bin /usr/bin /usr/X11R6/bin /bin /etc" exec gnome-session I tried to add to the PATH these since I had some problems launching some commands (were not found but installed), however I guess this is unnecessary for you (for me also now). There is a useful command something like unset LANG but I don�t remember exactly, it will remove some annoying error messages if you use startx to launch your session and don�t use the &. You can also set whatever you want (open a clock, a calc,a term window at the start as in the xinitrc demo file). I�m using gnome since it can work with a lot a window-manager (I use it with Window-Maker) and it allows you to configure everything so easyly from gnomecc... I think you should try with the simplest one: exec YOUR_WINDOW_MANAGER & good luck Eric DUFOUR _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
