Re: [Linuxwacom-devel] wacomcpl .xinitrc output

[Kory P. <kor...@gm...>]

hmmm... looking into this further, it might just be best to leave it as
it is... Here on Ubuntu, I don't even see the xinitrc file being used.
The only two locations that exist are $home/.xinitrc (created by
wacomcpl) and /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. But that second file doesn't
matter, because I renamed it and everything worked fine. Plus
$home/.xinitrc isn't even run on my system. I have to set it to run
manually as a shell script. I also found a link on the x.org site
(though it looks like older documentation)
http://www.x.org/archive/X11R6.8.1/doc/startx.1.html  (near the bottom)

That contradicts with the system paths for xinitrc. I think that it will
be so different on each system that changing it now could lead to
problems. I can't see any way to remedy this unless you found the system
paths for all Distros and then some. Maybe you have a better idea?
Thanks for the reply.... I think I see now why you put that there in the
first place...
Kory

On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 10:31 -0800, Ping@LinuxWacom wrote:
> Kory,
>  
> You do have a valid point.  But, I remember there was a reason to add
> that line ....
>  
> After googling "xinitrc", I see this link:
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/systems/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.cmds/doc/aixcmds6/xinit.htm.  You can see that, in the case there were no ~/.xinitrc (no local xinitrc), the system-wide xinitrc would have be executed if it exists.  
>  
> Maybe we should check the system-wide .xinitrc under all
> possible paths before adding it to the local .xinitrc?
>  
> I am open to suggestions.  If it is easier for you to change the
> code than to explain the solution (that is normally the case for
> me) , you can submit a patch to Tracker or to this list.  I'll take
> care of it.
>  
> Ping
>  
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Kory Prince <kor...@gm...>
> wrote:
>         Is there a certain reason why the .xinitrc made by wacomcpl
>         calls the
>         main system script?
>         It adds the lines:
>         run the primary system script
>         . /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
>         
>         Is there any reason to keep putting those lines in?
>         I understand the need for those lines on some systems, but I
>         figure if
>         they are needed, then they would already be present, and not
>         need to be
>         added. It's just my opinion, but what is the reason for
>         inserting thoses
>         lines? Thanks,
>         Kory