[OS X TeX] A few questions

[Joseph C. Slater]

On Aug 8, 2004, at 2:52 PM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
>
>>
>> I am still looking for a global ".xinitrc" file. Does this exist? 
>> Like /etc/csh.login as the global file which is read before ~/.login?
>>
>> Thanks,

 From 
http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/X_Window/Changing_the_Default_Desktop.html 
:

> To change the default desktop when you startx, you will need to edit 
> one of two files. The first is /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.
>
>  This script is used as a global fallback preference when there is no 
> /home/username/.xinitrc file present (or /root/.xinitrc for root 
> user). This file must be altered if present. This will change the 
> individual user's preference.
>
>  You see, one thing startx does is looks for the presence of 
> /home/somebody/.xinitrc and runs that. If that file does not exist, it 
> will run /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc It's a little more complicated than 
> that, but we won't get into that here.
>
>

A little hunting around shows how this happens in the startx script:
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx
Joe


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