Randy Beaudreault writes:

>How do I get my X Windows set up to have the same set up out of xdm 
>as I have out of startx? 

xdm startup scripts try to run the file ".xsession" in the user's homedir.
Make sure it's an executable shell script.  There you basically can put
in the same commands as you have in your .xinitrc (I think that's how
the file is called with startx.)

--mkb