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NathanZachary
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Hello everyone,
I know that after you install some version of KDE, you put:
in your ~/.xinitrc file. What I was wondering, though, is before you have a desktop environment installed, how does startx know to use TWM? I looked in .xinitrc expecting to see something along the lines of exec twm, but there's nothing in the file at all. However, after installing KDE, I wanted to see if I could get back to just using TWM (not that it's worth much, but I wanted to know if I could figure it out), and I couldn't.
Any ideas?
--Zach
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tarpman
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If you don't have a ~/.xinitrc, startx falls back to the system xinitrc, which on my machine is /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.
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i92guboj
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In startx you have:
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userclientrc=$HOME/.xinitrc
sysclientrc=/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
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if [ -f $userclientrc ]; then
defaultclientargs=$userclientrc
elif [ -f $sysclientrc ]; then
defaultclientargs=$sysclientrc
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So, if no ~/.xinitrc is found, then you use $sysclientrc, which is /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. Just look at its contents and you will know the rest of the story. |
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NathanZachary
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Thanks a lot; it makes sense now looking at the system .xinitrc file. 
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