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| -rw-r--r-- | man/startx.man | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/xinit.man | 2 |
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/startx.man b/man/startx.man index 2b894f7..2fe952d 100644 --- a/man/startx.man +++ b/man/startx.man @@ -71,7 +71,10 @@ startx \-\^\- \-layout Multihead .PP To determine the client to run, .B startx -first looks for a file called +first checks the environment variable +.I XINITRC +for a filename. If that variable is unset, or does not contain a filename, +it looks for a file called .I .xinitrc in the user's home directory. If that is not found, it uses the file @@ -85,7 +88,10 @@ behavior and revert to the behavior. To determine the server to run, .B startx -first looks for a file called +checks the environment variable +.I XSERVERRC +for a filename. If that variable is unset, or does not contain a filename, +it looks for a file called .I .xserverrc in the user's home directory. If that is not found, it uses the file @@ -161,6 +167,20 @@ for the local host. See the and .IR Xsecurity (__miscmansuffix__) manual pages for more information on X client/server authentication. +.TP 25 +XINITRC +This variable should contain the location of an xinitrc file. If unset, +.I $(HOME)/.xinitrc +or +.I __xinitdir__/xinitrc +will be used. +.TP 25 +XSERVERRC +This variable should contain the location of an xserver file. If unset, +.I $(HOME)/.xinitrc +or +.I __xinitdir__/xserverrc +will be used. .SH FILES .TP 25 .I $(HOME)/.xinitrc diff --git a/man/xinit.man b/man/xinit.man index d9d08df..d51fecf 100644 --- a/man/xinit.man +++ b/man/xinit.man @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ arguments to the default \fIxterm\fP command. It will ignore \fI\.xinitrc\fP. This will use the command \fI\./Xorg \-l \-c\fP to start the server and will append the arguments \fI\-e widgets\fP to the default \fIxterm\fP command. .TP 8 -.B "xinit /usr/ucb/rsh fasthost cpupig \-display ws:1 \-\^\- :1 \-a 2 \-t 5" +.B "xinit /usr/bin/ssh \-X fasthost cpupig \-\^\- :1 \-a 2 \-t 5" This will start a server named \fIX\fP on display 1 with the arguments \fI\-a 2 \-t 5\fP. It will then start a remote shell on the machine \fBfasthost\fP in which it will run the command \fIcpupig\fP, telling it |