3 Aug
2007
3 Aug
'07
3:05 a.m.
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:34:42PM -0700, Michael Vanier wrote:
I'm not ready to switch to using xmonad 100% of the time yet, so for the time being I'm running it using xnest. The problem I'm having is that I don't know how to get xmonad (or xnest) to read an initialization file (e.g. a .xinitrc file) in these circumstances. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Neither your window manager nor your X server is supposed to *ever* touch .xinitrc; this is the responsibility of your display manager, or if you do not use one, the server driver program. For instance, untested: startx -- /usr/bin/Xnest :1 will load your .xinitrc file in the context of an Xnest on display 1. Stefan