Mandrake and xinitrc

pepehonguito · 09-28-2004, 10:25 AM

Hi all!

When I'm booting in text mode on Mandrake 10.1, and then I do startx, the X server start properly, reading my configuration file ~/.xinitrc. But, when I boot on graphical mode, I can't make it read it. I need it, because I'm using blackbow as window manager, and I want to start xscreensaver, bbkeys and gkrellm with blackbox.
Any suggestion?

Pepe Honguito

theYinYeti · 09-29-2004, 02:29 AM

That's normal. .xinitrc is only read if you use xinit, of which startx is a wrapper.
When you login using gdm/kdm, the script that gets executed is /etc/X11/Xsession.

For this problem, what I usually do is modify Xsession so that before starting the window manager, it does that:

Code:

[ -x "${HOME}/.Xclients" ] && . "${HOME}/.Xclients" &

Then I change .xinitrc, so that it does the same, and only xinit-specific things remain in .xinitrc. All common apps are put inside .Xclients.

Yves.

pepehonguito · 09-29-2004, 07:55 AM

Hey, thanks a lot! I'll try that now.
Regards,

Pepe Honguito