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Re: [PLUG] Problem with .xinitrc
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On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 10:48:35PM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> I've got a fresh new Debian Potato install. Mostly things seem to be
> working fine, but I'm having a strange problem I can't figure out.
>
> If I run startx without a ~/.xinitrc, X loads just fine. But if I
> have a .xinitrc, even if it's 0 bytes, X exits immediately. I tried
> making .xinitrc executable, but that didn't make any difference. The
> output from startx looks normal and no errors are reported.
>
> Anyone have an idea what the problem might be?
I figured out what the problem was. If you have a .xinitrc you need
to start a window manager inside it. A simple
exec /usr/bin/x-window-manager
was all I needed.
Walt
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