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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It is superceded by ~/.xinitrc (if there is one).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