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Waaay too much work
Authored by: silicontrip on Sep 15, '05 02:07:43AM

The original poster mentions that he did not like this method, due to the fact that if there are system updates that he might miss these chages due to the fact that he is using a copy in his home directory.

Here's a hint about /etc, it's the unix configuration directory. Software updates are not likely to touch this directory, unless a new service is installed.



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Waaay too much work
Authored by: marcelk on Sep 15, '05 03:17:51AM

silicontrip, there can be more than one reason not wanting
to touch system files.
One is that unix is a multi user system, and it is not nice to
push one user's preference through the throat of all others.
Another reason is that not every user needs to have admin rights.



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Waaay too much work
Authored by: ratthing on Oct 02, '05 08:07:57AM

Which is exactly why an .xinitrc file should be in your home directory.

I think the original author is being a bit disingenuous when he says he's "uncomfortable" editting an .xinitrc config file for his home dir and then posts up a more complicated shell script.

An .xinitrc file can consist of a single line that starts your window manager and nothing else.

=RT=



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