Re: xinitrc m0x0Cn and you.

Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 22 Mar 2005 06:59:31 -0600

Miloslav Trmac wrote:
Hello,
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 06:35:37AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:

I'm currently exploring further modularization of the xinitrc
package, with the following goals in mind:

Let me suggest
4) Avoid introducing new interfaces when there already is
a consensus in a related field.

In particular, .desktop files in /usr/share/xsession seems
to be the consensus among GDM and KDM, and should be usable
for xinitrc too.

Yeah, but now you want xinitrc, a bash shell script to parse .desktop 
files?  (Not that it would be *that* hard to pick out the line Exec= or 
TryExec= entry)

-- Rex