Re: [expert] .xinitrc/startx weirdness

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 10:17 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > > Modify: 2002-09-26 00:11:19.0 +0200 > > > Change: 2002-09-26 19:47:40.0 +0200 > > > > > > OK, what's the difference between 'Modify' and 'Change'? I'm > > > not a native english speaker so for me the meaning of th

Re: [expert] .xinitrc/startx weirdness

2002-09-29 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 11:07 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > 020929 Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > Modify: 2002-09-26 00:11:19.0 +0200 > > Change: 2002-09-26 19:47:40.0 +0200 > > > > OK, what's the difference between 'Modify' and 'Change'? I'm not a > > native english speaker so for

Re: [expert] .xinitrc/startx weirdness

2002-09-29 Thread Philip Webb
020929 Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > Modify: 2002-09-26 00:11:19.0 +0200 > Change: 2002-09-26 19:47:40.0 +0200 > > OK, what's the difference between 'Modify' and 'Change'? I'm not a > native english speaker so for me the meaning of the words is the same. there's no difference in

Re: [expert] .xinitrc/startx weirdness

2002-09-29 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 03:06 -0500, s wrote: > On Saturday 28 September 2002 08:36 am, SpeedMan wrote: > > Next time it happens you could use stat to at least pin point when > > the file was created and/or modified. This information may help > > you identify the process that is creating the fil

Re: [expert] .xinitrc/startx weirdness

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Saturday 28 September 2002 08:36 am, SpeedMan wrote: > On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 20:59, s wrote: > > Hi gang, > > I have a little mystery going on here that isn't really distro or > > version specific as I've had it happen to me for many many > > mandrake releases and in Slackware. But something s

Re: [expert] .xinitrc/startx weirdness

2002-09-28 Thread SpeedMan
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 20:59, s wrote: > Hi gang, > I have a little mystery going on here that isn't really distro or > version specific as I've had it happen to me for many many mandrake > releases and in Slackware. But something somewhere somehow for some > reason is creating an empty .xinit

[expert] .xinitrc/startx weirdness

2002-09-26 Thread s
Hi gang, I have a little mystery going on here that isn't really distro or version specific as I've had it happen to me for many many mandrake releases and in Slackware. But something somewhere somehow for some reason is creating an empty .xinitrc file in my home directory on occasion, and of