This is what happens when a BSD hacker is told to use Linux

[David Wolfskill]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 11:06:49PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Guy B. Purcell wrote:
> 
> > P. S.  Did you ever figure out how to make Gnome & xdm play  
> > together?  Knowing that may come in handy someday (I used to do  
> > something similar when I had Solaris on my desktop).
> 
> that should be defined in /etc/X11/xinit

Not really, unless Linux is doing somethiung fairly twisted:  if xinit
is used, the logged-in user is starting X.  if xdm (or its relatives)
are used, a process that need not correspond to a login, or even to a
flesh-and-blood user (what the law calls a "natural person") is starting
X.  That's a non-trivial distinction.
 
> and or you can make your own ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsessions
> that will work with either desktop with any window manager
> and login screen

And ~/.xsession is used in xdm-created environments, while ~/.xinitrc is
used for xinit.

Now, whether or not you'd have equivalent function in those different
environments is an open question....  :-}

Peace,
david
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