[LUNI] xinitrc and Debian

[Noesis]

Hah.

Thank you Martin. 

I'm a "Slack" guy and simply don't have the time to maintain the packages on
my workstations the way Slack requires so I'm switching my workstations over
to Debian.  Servers still Slack. :) Been using Slack for a long time and the
differences between Slack and Debian are taking some getting used to!

I appreciate it!

Regards,
  -Noesis

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 10:49:40 -0600
Martin Maney <maney at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 08:36:40AM -0800, Noesis wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 	I just installed Debian on a workstation.  So far so good.  I installed
> > Blackbox, bbpager, bbkeys and all that good stuff as well as copied over my
> > .xinitrc.  However, when I 'startx' it does not read my .xinitrc, it reads elsewhere
> > and starts KDE! In Slackware, your .xinitrc overrides all others (global) - 
> > what do I need to do for my .xinitrc to be read from my home directory?
> 
> man startx:
> 
>        Note that in the Debian system, what  many  people  tradi-
>        tionally  put  in the .xinitrc file should go in .xsession
>        instead; this permits the same X environment  to  be  pre-
>        sented  whether startx, xdm, or xinit is used to start the
>        X session. All discussion of  the  .xinitrc  file  in  the
>        xinit(1)  manual  page  applies equally well to .xsession.
>        Keep in mind that .xinitrc is used only  by  xinit(1)  and
>        completely ignored by xdm(1).
> 
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