Gavin W. Burris on 18 Apr 2014 09:20:44 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] two window managers


On Fri 04/18/14 11:57AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Gavin W. Burris <bug@wharton.upenn.edu> wrote:
> > I am using startx from a consle, no login manager.  That uses
> > the ~/.xsession script.
> 
> Go figure...
> 
> If .xinitrc vs .xsession even is a standard I doubt I could find it
> and point my finger at it, and I doubt anybody bothers to read it.  :)
> 
> Rich

Yes, it is confusing.  And correction... startx from the console does use
the ~/.xinitrc file!  The CentOS 6 display manager use ~/.xsession
with those extra packages.  

Cheers.
-- 
Gavin W. Burris
Senior Project Leader for Research Computing
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
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