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Stop automatic xterm in Apple X11
Authored by: jctull on Jan 21, '05 01:35:14PM

Don't remove those lines. Rather, put a '#' character in front of the line with xterm & in it. The '#' character tells the shell to ignore anything on that line, treating it as a comment. By adding that, you do not have to look up what to type in order to return this funcionality at a later date.

As you said, work on the user-level copy as ~/.xinitrc. Leave the original version in /etc untouched.



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Stop automatic xterm in Apple X11
Authored by: UltraNurd on Jan 21, '05 02:40:19PM

On commenting vs. deleting, it's a decision on make on a case-by-case basis. Since I was doing this on my personal machine, which has no other users, I removed the lines instead of commenting them. In general, I don't like commented-out junk that I know I'm not going to use sitting around in config files. It's not an issue of convenience, or efficiency, or storage space, just my aesthetic tastes.



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