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+<h1 class="SECT1"><a id="X-WINDOW-SYSTEM-XINITRC" name="X-WINDOW-SYSTEM-XINITRC">6.3
+xinitrc</a></h1>
+
+<p><tt class="COMMAND">xinit</tt>(1) is the program that actually starts X; it is called
+by <tt class="COMMAND">startx</tt>(1), so you may not have noticed it (and probably don't
+really need to). Its configuration file, however, determines which programs (including
+and especially the window manager) are run when X starts up. <tt
+class="COMMAND">xinit</tt> first checks your home directory for a <tt
+class="FILENAME">.xinitrc</tt> file. If the file is found, it gets run; otherwise, <tt
+class="FILENAME">/var/X11R6/lib/xinit/xinitrc</tt> (the systemwide default) is used.
+Here's a simple <tt class="FILENAME">xinitrc</tt> file:</p>
+
+<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+<tr>
+<td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+#!/bin/sh
+# $XConsortium: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.4 91/08/22 11:41:34 rws Exp $
+
+userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
+usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
+sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources
+sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap
+
+# merge in defaults and keymaps
+
+if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
+ xrdb -merge $sysresources
+fi
+
+if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
+ xmodmap $sysmodmap
+fi
+
+if [ -f $userresources ]; then
+ xrdb -merge $userresources
+fi
+
+if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
+ xmodmap $usermodmap
+fi
+
+# start some nice programs
+
+twm &#38;
+xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &#38;
+xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &#38;
+xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &#38;
+exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login
+</pre>
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+
+<p>All of those &#8220;if&#8221; blocks are there to merge in various configuration
+settings from other files. The interesting part of the file is toward the end, where
+various programs are run. This X session will begin with the <tt
+class="COMMAND">twm</tt>(1) window manager, a clock, and three terminals. Note the <tt
+class="COMMAND">exec</tt> before the last <tt class="COMMAND">xterm</tt>. What that does
+is replace the currently running shell (the one that's executing this <tt
+class="FILENAME">xinitrc</tt> script) with that <tt class="COMMAND">xterm</tt>(1)
+command. When the user quits that <tt class="COMMAND">xterm</tt>, the X session will
+end.</p>
+
+<p>To customize your X startup, copy the default <tt
+class="FILENAME">/var/X11R6/lib/xinit/xinitrc</tt> to <tt
+class="FILENAME">~/.xinitrc</tt> and edit it, replacing those program lines with whatever
+you like. The end of mine is simply:</p>
+
+<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+<tr>
+<td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+# Start the window manager:
+exec startkde
+</pre>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>Note that there are several <tt class="FILENAME">xinitrc.*</tt> files in <tt
+class="FILENAME">/var/X11R6/lib/xinit</tt> that correspond to various window managers and
+GUIs. You can use any of those, if you like.</p>
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