XWin won't run xterm on start

[Ken Brown]

On 2/22/2016 3:46 PM, Jaakov wrote:
>> Ah, perhaps.  There may be ways to catch that, but it may be easier
>> for the
>> OP to copy the startxwinrc file's contents.  Not the best for
>> responding to
>> future changes ...
>
> One way to prevent recursion is
>
> if [[ "$FILEINCLUDED" != "1" ]];
> then
>    export FILEINCLUDED=1
>    ...  # do real job here
> fi
>
> However, placing this either into the systemwide startxwinrc or into the
> local .startxwinrc would not do anything useful.
>
> The right thing to do would be to append a call to
> $HOME/.startxwinrc_final (this name is freshly invented, feel free to
> change) at the end of the systemwide startxwinrc. An alternative would
> be to call $HOME/.startxwinrc_final from the same place from where the
> systemwide startxwinrc is called; namely right after it.
>
> Anyone feeling of doing this?

There's no need for this complexity.  If you don't like what the system 
startxwinrc does, just copy it to ~/.startxwinrc and modify it to suit 
your purposes.

Ken


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