On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 06:54:06PM +1000, Rene Hexel wrote:
> On 25/09/2004, at 3:55 PM, Richard Rauch wrote:
> 
> >It Just Works, of course, if she logs in via a text console and
> >types "startx".
> 
>   Just a thought: xdm uses .xsession instead of .xinitrc -- maybe 
> that's the problem?

Thanks.  It is was also necessary to comment out a line in the
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config file.  (There was no need to
modify Xaccess.)


>   If you don't have a .xsession file in your (mother's) home directory, 
> create one that runs your .xinitrc:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> exec $HOME/.xinitrc

I found it necessary to put in a bit more, since the xterms started
from .xinitrc were launching shells without the corresponding
startup scripts.  So I needed to invoke the shell config scripts
to set paths and prompts.

(.xinitrc, being run from startx after a normal login, inherits
all of the suitable environment.  .xsession seems to have nothing
to inherit, since all that's happened is a bare login.)


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