[ale] init 5 and .xinitrc

Brian H. Trammell brian at altara.org
Thu Jul 16 18:45:42 EDT 1998


In runlevel 5 (using xdm), it is .xsession, not .xinitrc, that gets
started. I usually ln -s .xinitrc .xsession. Also, make sure that
.xsession is executable.

-brian

On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, David Hamm wrote:

> I'm running in runlevel 5 and I have a .xinitrc file in my home directory but
> it doesn't seem to get execed when I log in.  Any Ideas?
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