On Wednesday 31 December 2003 18:13, Vic Ayres wrote:
On 31/12/2003 16:44, Jan Elders wrote:
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 23:32, Vic Ayres wrote:
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As I understand it, .xinitrc is used if you login to runlevel 3 and issue startx. If you login to runlevel 5, the file used is .xsession. Try making a link from .xinitrc to .xsession and see if that helps.
Well, thanks for the suggestion Vic, but .......... I forgot to mention that I'm running SuSE 9.0 and SuSE's SDB explicitely states the following : =================== Symptom SUSE LINUX 9.0 ignores the entries in the file ~/.xsession. Cause SUSE LINUX 9.0 only considers entries in the file ~/.xinitrc. Solution Write the content of the file ~/.xsession to the file ~/.xinitrc. =================== So, it really should execute .xinitrc, but it doesn't. :-( Cheers,
Yes, as it happens, I saw that SDB article not long after posting my reply. But, as I was about to post to that effect, I also saw a post by Patrick Shanahan subject Re: [SLE] Crash has trashed init 5/startx [SOLVED] where it appears that it (SUSE9.0) does indeed reference ~/.xsession.
Nope. I added ln -s .xinitrc .xsession in my home directory, but .... no joy. In fact I notice that several things are not working on my system : * .xinitrc is clearly NOT executed at session start * .xsession is clearly NOT executed at session start * .Xmodmap is clearly NOT executed at session start * the Mode_switch function appears to be NOT working (after having assigned Mode-switch to AltGr, then AltGr 5 does not render €, although everything is defined correctly in xmodmap - this has been checked thoroughly) * the same applies to the Multi-key function; after having prepared my desired settings (correctly, I'm confident) it still appears to be NOT working. All of the above combined gives me the feeling that something is fundamentally wrong on my system (some system function corrupted ??) but I have no idea what and where. Anybody any clues ? TIA and Happy New Year, -- Jan Elders the Netherlands http://www.xs4all.nl/~jrme/ "Home of the Network Acronyms"