xfce startup sequence
Chris Green
chris at areti.co.uk
Sun Dec 21 16:54:59 CET 2003
Well I've had a look through the X startup scripts and it seems to be
as follows (I run xdm as I'm using xfce4 via an X server on a win2k
machine):-
xdm is running
If X is started with a window manager parameter that window
manager is stated using the appropriate script. For xfce it
executes /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.xfce, this looks as if it is
what's happening to me.
If X is started without a window manager parameter then
$HOME/.xsession is run, if that doesn't exist then
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc is run which ends up doing the same as
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.xfce since it's a symbolic link to it.
So it looks to me that whatever happens a $HOME/.xinitrc or a
$HOME/.xfce/xinitrc will *never* be run, I can see no place that looks
for these files at all.
Maybe this is because I run xdm and not xinit/startx to run X but it
seems strange that they are so different.
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Chris Green (chris at areti.co.uk)
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