On Friday 02 January 2004 22:15, Richard Bos wrote: <snip>
Next thing try the debugging thing in /usr/bin/X11/startx and see what files are executed....
Yes, but I'll be like a little boy in a big town (not really understanding what I'm looking at).
Of course. There are some references to xinitrc: pilchard:~> grep -n xinitrc /usr/X11/bin/startx 7:# interface than xinit. It looks for user .xinitrc and .xserverrc 8:# files, then system xinitrc and xserverrc files, else lets xinit choose 9:# its default. The system xinitrc should probably do things like check 143:userclientrc=$HOME/.xinitrc 145:sysclientrc=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc
Let's see if you find these back in the debug log file. It will be interesting what is the outcome of line 208 (on my system): 208:xinit $clientargs -- $serverargs
OK, I added the following in the very beginning of startx (just before the "check for installed servers") : exec 2>/tmp/debug set -x However, after re-login (and even re-boot) there is NO file debug in /tmp !!!!???? What would that imply ? Cheers, -- Jan Elders the Netherlands http://www.xs4all.nl/~jrme/ "Home of the Network Acronyms"