xinitrc m0x0Cn and you.

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Mar 22 12:59:31 UTC 2005


Miloslav Trmac wrote:
> Hello,
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 06:35:37AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> 
>>I'm currently exploring further modularization of the xinitrc
>>package, with the following goals in mind:
> 
> Let me suggest
> 4) Avoid introducing new interfaces when there already is
> a consensus in a related field.
> 
> In particular, .desktop files in /usr/share/xsession seems
> to be the consensus among GDM and KDM, and should be usable
> for xinitrc too.

Yeah, but now you want xinitrc, a bash shell script to parse .desktop 
files?  (Not that it would be *that* hard to pick out the line Exec= or 
TryExec= entry)

-- Rex




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