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  • From: ichi AT aggies.org
  • To: baslin AT topica.com
  • Cc: BL Mail List <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [BL] Re: ratpoison and other small windowmanager
  • Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 07:42:58 +0000

sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > If you have no ~/.xinitrc file, xinit
> > will give you the following:
> > -----------------------------------------
> > xterm -geometry +1+1 -n login -display :0
> > -----------------------------------------
>
> This explains a problem we are having on the (600MB)
> SuSE 6.2 computer - I type xinit and it puts me into KDE.
> If I delete the ~/xinitrc

There's a dot at the start of the name: .xinitrc

> I found an xinitrc file in a subdirectory

That one (without dot) is the universal config for startx.
It is superceded by ~/.xinitrc (if there is one).

> CLI?

Command Line Interface -- the opposite of GUI.

> > --------------
> > xinit -e xeyes
> > --------------
>
> What is the -e? I had tried without an -e.

The -e tells the xterm to execute the following.

Cheers,
Steven





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