[ale] .Xclients won't run

[cfowler]

Code in question:

if [ -f $HOME/.Xclients ]; then
    exec $HOME/.Xclients
elif [ -f /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients ]; then
    exec /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
else
       # failsafe settings.  Although we should never get here
       # (we provide fallbacks in Xclients as well) it can't hurt.
       xclock -geometry 100x100-5+5 &
       xterm -geometry 80x50-50+150 &

This is in my /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file.

Dows ~.Xclients have executable permissions?




On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 14:12, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> I've got a really weird one.  When I run startx on my RedHat 8.0 system the 
> file /etc/X11/xinitrc runs, which then checks for the existence of 
> $HOME/.Xclients.  Finding it, it execs it.  At least, that is the theory.
> 
> By putting in some echos redirected to a file, I can say that this is what 
> happens:  
> 1. When I run startx the X server starts and then /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc 
> starts running.
> 2. xinitrc detects that I have the file $HOME/.Xclients
> 3. xinitrc execs $HOME/.Xclients
> 4. .Xclients never executes.
> 
> If I put 'echo "hello" > /tmp/hello' as the first executable line of 
> .Xclients, the line never executes.  I can run .Xclients by hand and it 
> executes fine.
> 
> WFT?
> 
> I should say that the major change I've made recently is to compile KDE 3.1 
> by hand and install it in /usr/local/kde.  I've changed the path and 
> ld.co.conf to point to this new code.
> 
> Anyone know what is going on?
> 
> Michael
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