How to run my .xinitrc

marozsas · 03-31-2006, 12:17 PM

Hi !

I am migrating from SuSE 10.0 to FC5.
In SuSE, I have a ~/.xinitrc file to run...

Code:

eval `ssh-agent -s`
ssh-add

eval `gpg-agent --daemon`

...just before my window manager start.

How to do a similar thing on FC5 ?
Looks like it ignores my ~/.xinitrc file.
I've tried with a .xsession but it didn't work too

thanks in advance for any ideas,

Randux · 04-01-2006, 04:43 PM

.xinitrc gets started by startx command

marozsas · 04-03-2006, 06:29 AM

Yes, I know. After that, startx calls my DEFAULT_WM (which is defined in /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager).

Thats mean in FC5 the things are different ? My WM is not called by startx ?

How do I run theses commands before my window manager starts ?

thanks for any comments,

marozsas · 04-03-2006, 11:56 AM

run the program switchdesk and it will create a .Xclients-default file.
Edit this file adding the commands just before the for loop.

Code:

bash-3.1$ cat .Xclients-default
#!/bin/bash
# (c) 2001 Red Hat, Inc.

WM="gnome-session"
WMPATH="/usr/bin /usr/X11R6/bin /usr/local/bin"

# ssh-add
eval `ssh-agent`
ssh-add

eval `gpg-agent --daemon`

for p in $WMPATH ; do
   [ -x $p/$WM ] && exec $p/$WM
done


exit 1
bash-3.1$

Randux · 04-04-2006, 09:27 AM

Glad you fixed it and thanks for posting the solution.