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~/.xinitrc is created by the user
Authored by: johnblommers on Jan 10, '03 09:38:08PM

/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc is the system default for XFree86 and OroborOSX and I made a copy of it and placed it in my home directory, adding a dot in front of its name. The X11 system reads this .xinitrc file preferentially over the system-wide xinitrc. I put in some customizations that I wanted.

Now Apple's X11 product is supposed to be based on XFree86, and I recall reading about some install-time option that allowed my own customization to remain in effect. So I was using twm as before. Luckily I spotted quartz-wm runing on another machine that I had NOT customized and made the switch. It now works just like OroborOSX does - regarding look and feel at least.



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