Re: xinitrc follies

On Monday 10 May 2004 10:43 am, Jonathan Daugherty wrote:
> # I'm trying to configure .xinitrc so I can choose which window
> # manager to use on a whim, and of course there must be a
> # default. Here is my current version:
> 
> If putting it in .xinitrc doesn't work (and I don't know of a way to
> have startx pass args to .xinitrc), then instead, move your .xinitrc
> to a script -- say ~/bin/startx -- which you run, like
> 
> foo@bar:~$ startx wmaker
> 
> where ~/bin comes before /usr/bin/X11 in your PATH.  Your ~/bin/startx
> might either create ~/.xinitrc using a stub config or call startx with
> some voodoo which has not yet been identified.

Hmm. Yeah, you're right. I'm not crazy about using a display manager, because 
they get in my way, and don't provide a way to log out of X to the console. 
Maybe scripting something using xinit would be a cleaner way to begin.

I love the comment at the beginning of startx:

#This is just a sample implementation of a slightly less primitive
# interface than xinit.  ...
# Site administrators are STRONGLY urged to write nicer versions.

Um, OK! Someday I will devote my life to untangling the eleventy-eight million 
files and scripts that X needs to run, and write a nicer startx. :)

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