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List:       kde-cygwin
Subject:    AW: [Kde-cygwin] RE: kde setup problem: .xinitrc
From:       "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf.Habacker () freenet ! de>
Date:       2001-07-25 11:14:04
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: kde-cygwin-admin@master.kde.org
> [mailto:kde-cygwin-admin@master.kde.org]Im Auftrag von Tzafrir Cohen
> Gesendet am: Dienstag, 24. Juli 2001 16:24
> An: Ralf Habacker
> Cc: Kde-Cygwin
> Betreff: [Kde-cygwin] RE: kde setup problem: .xinitrc
>
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Ralf Habacker wrote:
>
> > > 6. Most important: any idea who put this script in my home directory???
> > > It replaced a perfectly working one. Now X clients can't connect again,
> > > and I have to figure out what is wrong with xauth...
> > >
> > In the installation topic of the kde-1.1.2-b1.README there is desribed,
> > that the kdemisc package would install this files to /home/administrator.
> >
> > 8. install the X-relating startup files
> >  After installing the kde-misc archive, some x related config files
> (.xinitrc
> > and .xserverrc)
> >  are installed in the default home directory /home/administrator.
> >  If you don't use this dir as you home directory copy this file to your home
> > directory.
> >
> >  $ cp /home/administrator/.x* $HOME
>
> You shouldn't write files in the user's home directory. For instance, you
> shouldn't modify .xinitrc when you have /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc (although
> it is only used if $HOME/.xinitrc is not availble. See the
> /usr/X11Rb/bin/startx script )
>
But the problem of overwriting will stay too, if another window manager use this
file.

> I also don't think that KDE should assume it is the only desktop
> environment and feel free to overwrite my xinit scripts. What if I have
> added a call to, say, ssh-agent? What if I have my own XWin parameters?
>
> What happens after he next window manager ovewrites xinitrc? How do I load
> kde then?
>
> In other words: make the installation a bit more complex, in order to
> prevent the user from later getting into trouble.
>
Do you have any detailed ideas how this could be archived ?

> The installation could be further automated if cygwin/xfree had a more
> clear policy regarding what exactly is a desktop package allowed to do,
> and what it should provide. But that is not yet the case.
>
So we are on our own.

> Also, I wish that the cygwin folks would have adapted the idea of
> /etc/profile.d (as used e.g., in redhat). This would have allowed you to
> put a script in /etc/profile.d instead of asking the user to modify
> /etc/profile
>
Do you have send this to the cygwin-xfree mailing list. I think there is the
right
place to discuss such things ?


Ralf
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