* Vic Ayres <vic@ayresonline.co.uk> [12-30-03 19:13]:
On 30/12/2003 23:37, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
Ended up being very simple but unnoticed until reading another post about a completely different subject.
startx works from runlevel 3, .xinitrc present init 5 hangs, .xsession missing
replaced .xsession from /etc/X11/xdm/sys.xsession
The only thing, I am unaware of any changes that should be present in my .xsession.
Oddity: in 8.1 there was an original copy of .xsession in /etc/skel but none in 9.0 ????
comments requested....
Strangely, after posting about .xinitrc/.xsession in another thread, I found by chance on the SDB, article http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/10/dcon_xsession_sl90.html which says that 9.0 doesn't use ~/.xsession, only ~/.xinitrc. Your experience suggests that this is untrue. Personally, I ln -s .xinitrc .xsession and I haven't noticed any problems.
Do a tkdiff .xinitrc /etc/X11/xdm/sys.xsession and you will see there are considerable differences _although_ those differences may not make much noticeable visual difference ...???? -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org