xinitrc m0x0Cn and you.

Mike A. Harris mharris at www.linux.org.uk
Tue Mar 22 14:01:31 UTC 2005


Rex Dieter wrote:
> Mike A. Harris wrote:
> 
>> I'm currently exploring further modularization of the xinitrc
>> package, with the following goals in mind:
>>
>> 1) Maximize modularization of all scripts included, in an effort
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>> 2) Minimize xinitrc package maintenance via modularization,
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>> 3) Enable 3rd party window manager rpm packagers to provide
>>    drop-in "it works" functionality that integrates with the
>>    system without requiring changes to the core of xinitrc.
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> ...
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>> While this concept may (or may not) sound like a large task, it
>> is seemingly a very very small and simple task IMHO.  I've
>> attached a very small and simple patch to implement a solution
>> to this problem to the following bugzilla report:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=142260
> 
> 
> I had done the essentially the same thing in a couple months ago:
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=122941#c12
> but my suggested patch also removes all switchdesk references, and 
> hard-coded references to gnome/kde (as well as gdm/kdm).

Hmm, yes "Xclients.d" might be a better name for the directory than
Xsession.d is.  The same script could be used both for *dm startup
and startx presumeably.




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