Question on .xinitrc and .xsession

Bliss, Aaron ABliss at preferredcare.org
Tue Jul 18 17:02:55 UTC 2006


It seems that commands in .Xclients-default were being ignored, however
editing .Xclients works at both runlevels 3 and 5.  Thanks for your
help.

Aaron 

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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Stuart Sears
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 3:10 PM
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Subject: Re: Question on .xinitrc and .xsession

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Bliss, Aaron wrote:
> It seems that RedHat ES (at least version 4) is ignoring my .xsession
> file; .xsession file is very simple:
> I've verified that I don't have a .Xclients nor a .Xclients-default
file
> (I'm pretty sure using switchdesk would create these);
yes, it would

 any ideas?  P.S.
> I wouldn't be against using switchdesk, I just can't figure how to run
> commands after logging into the desktop other than by using .xsession
at
> init 5;
so why not add the commands you want to run to the .Xclients-default
file?

> #!/bin/bash
> 
> xterm &
> startkde
things that sometimes case issues with this...
file permissions?
ownership?
errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log?

Stuart

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