Re: startx toasts AfterStep start directory
Paul Keefer (paul@bavaria.jccbi.gov)
Sun, 20 Sep 1998 14:20:02 -0500
I had a similar problem and found a slightly different solution.
I am using xdm and in the /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession file there is a section
that looks like this:
if [ -x "$startup" ]; then
exec "$startup"
elif [ -x "$HOME/.Xclients" ]; then
exec "$HOME/.Xclients"
I had a .xsession file in my home directory, but it apparently wasn't being
used. The problem was that the permissions didn't allow for execute, so
the /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients file was being called, and that clobbers the
~/G/L/A directory structure. Once I changed the ~/.xsession file to mode
700 everything worked fine. All errors are sent to .xsession-errors now
too.
I hope this helps some.
Oh, this is a standard RedHat 5.1 installation too.
David Mihm wrote:
> The options are as follows:
> 1) rpm -e Afterstep ; then get the official non-RedHat-m4-processing
> version from a download site near you listed at www.afterstep.org .
> 2) create an ~/.Xclients and ~/.xinitrc file with just "afterstep" in
> them, this will bypass the m4 processing calls in the default (RedHat)
> startx process.
>
> I believe this to be accurate, as this was the solution someone
> else has posted to this list. If this (2)does not work for you please
> post again.
>
> HTH
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