Xdm var/log/xdm.log

[Robert Huff]

Polytropon writes:

>  > >  > Ok, I will add xsession.
>  > >  
>  > >  NB: .xsession (the dot is significant).
>  > >  
>  > >  Or you can do the following, as you said you already have
>  > >  a .xinitrc (which xdm will ignore, as mentioned):
>  > >  
>  > >  	% cp .xinitrc .xsession
>  > 
>  > 	From my home directory:
>  > 
>  > lrwxrwxr-x   1 huff  huff         8 May  1 01:19 .xsession -> .xinitrc
>  > 
>  > 	This implies you want the same environment from both.
>  
>  Will usually work, but doesn't keep C shell initialization
>  (environmental variables, aliases, settings), which might
>  not be a problem if you're not using the C shell for dialog
>  sessions or if you concentrate on GUI entirely. :-)

	Once	I start X, I do pretty much everything within it.  For the
rest I console-switch.
	(And the first line of the file is "#! /bin/sh".  :-) )
	What is there that one might wish to do that can't be handled out
of an xterm?


			Curiously,


				Robert Huff