xinitrc in 3.99.1

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Mon Jul 14 12:10:46 CEST 2003


Nope, you're right. In his case, the which statement returns "no",
that's causing the problem.

I, however, would prefer not to cascade startup scripts. So I would
prefer to keep the session management startup in the regular xinitrc.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 11:55, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Benny,
> 
> Should I add that the problem, as it seems, doesn't come from the part I
> added, but from the UID stuff for xscreeensaver ?
> 
> Cheers,
> Olivier.
> 
> On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 11:36, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> > On Mon, 14, Jul 2003, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
> > 
> > Olivier,
> > 
> > >  # Run xfce4-session if installed
> > >  xfcesm=`which xfce4-session`
> > > And maybe the which-statement should be replaced by a for loop?
> > 
> > I think, you got me wrong about how to start the session manager. I
> > install a script xinitrc.xfce4-session, that should be used by
> > startxfce4 if available, if not, startxfce4 should start the fallback
> > xinitrc. Using which or similar detection methods is usually a back
> > idea (we already realized it with the update-xfce script). I'll change
> > it when I'm back at home (atleast if nobody else does first).
> > 
> > Martti: Just remove the xfce4-session stuff from the xinitrc for RC1
> > packages.
> > 
> > > Martti
> > 
> > Benedikt
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