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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.dfn.de!news.coli.uni-sb.de!usenet From: Joerg Wallerich <ib14-3@broccoli.cs.uni-sb.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: xdm amd logins on boot up...... Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 11:38:35 +0100 Organization: Computational Linguistics Dept., U Saarbruecken Lines: 16 Message-ID: <313AC82B.2781E494@broccoli.cs.uni-sb.de> References: <313b0e22.43390112@news.enter.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: broccoli.cs.uni-sb.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4c) Daniel Hauer wrote: > > I'm not sure if I can ask this question properly but here goes..... > I run 2.1.0R and Xfree86, with a custom .xinitrc file in each users > /home directory, is there a way I could start xdm with the login > screen, and then according to whatever user logs on to the machine, > run the .xinitrc file in his or her home directory? > any ideas would be totally appreciated..... > xdm uses $(HOME)/.xsession for user specific configuration. just create a symbolic link named .xsession to .xinitrc in the home directory (i.e. ln -s .xinitrc .xsession). this works at least on my machine.