[lug] dumb X question

Mr Viggy LittleViggy at alum.manhattan.edu
Tue Apr 1 16:57:02 MST 2003


On my Slackware install, I have a file:

/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

Actually, it's a link to a file called 'xinitrc.wmaker' as I use 
WindowMaker.  I know that on Slackware, there's a 'xinitrc.gnome' if you 
install it (I don't).

Viggy

jd wrote:
> I Dont have that file in my /home/dir. Still looking....
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 16:03, Dhruva Reddy wrote:
> 
>>Not sure about desktop environments, but when I was running IceWM, I had a
>>file called ".xinitrc" in my home directory with the following line:
>>
>>exec icewm
>>
>>I currently run KDE, but it was all set up automagically, since I also run
>>kdm.
>>
>>-d
>>
>>
>>>Hello,
>>> Im embaressed to say that i cant spell, and that i cant
>>>figure out how to set my default desktop enviroment on
>>>a Debian box.  I have been using gnome and I apt-get'ed
>>>KDE. Debian must like KDE because as soon as it was installed
>>>it became the default that "startx" invokes. So now i got
>>>to do xinit and then gnome-session. How can i fix it so startx 
>>>starts Gnome.
>>
>>>-- 
>>>jd
>>>jd at taproot.bz
>>>
>>>Bad spellers of the world untie!
>>>
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>>>if I have never worked a single day of my life"
>>>			Miguel de Icaza
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