misc/175378: X won't accept keyboard or mouse input if .xinitrc is empty

[Eric Radman]

>Number:         175378
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       X won't accept keyboard or mouse input if .xinitrc is empty
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jan 17 17:40:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Eric Radman
>Release:        9.1
>Organization:
eradman.com
>Environment:
FreeBSD T30b 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243826: Tue Dec  4 06:55:39 UTC 2012     root at obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

>Description:
If .xinitrc only contains 'exec ${windowmanager}' X will not accept keyboard input and there's no mouse pointer. I tried cwm, dwm, and twm.
>How-To-Repeat:
echo "exec twm" > ~/.xinitrc
startx
>Fix:
Start another application before launching the window manager

echo "xterm &" > ~/.xinitrc
echo "exec twm" >> ~/.xinitrc
startx

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