xinitrc

[Patrick Dupre]

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Mike Cloaked wrote:

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> Patrick Dupre wrote:
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>> Something that I do not understand
>> xinit is supposed to use /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients (or .Xclients)
>> but this script test the existence of:
>> /etc/sysconfig/desktop
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>> but this file does not exists in fc10 !!
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>> It results that the variable DESKTOP is not taken into account !!!
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> /etc/sysconfig/desktop has not existed for several previous versions of
> Fedora before F10!  If you need this file then create it - it only has two
> lines usually!  You can copy it from an earlier working system if you like.
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> It contains lines such as:
> DESKTOP="GNOME"
> DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"
>
> or similar.
>
Hi Mike,

Thank, but I do not understand why this Xclients file has not been
fixed in fedora 10 !!
I do think that it is a similar bug that mess up gnome-session !
kde works fine, but as soon that I switch the gnome, the X session
fails.

Regards.

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