Typically a shell script which runs many programs in the background.Ĭlient to run if the user has no. This variable prevents the X server, if not given the - auth argument, from automatically setting up insecure host-based authentication for the local host.Ĭlient to run. This variable, if not already defined, gets set to $(HOME)/.Xauthority. This variable gets set to the name of the connected clients display. The system-wide xinitrc and xserverrc files are found in the /etc/X11/xinit directory. If command line server options are given, they override this behavior and revert to the xinit behavior. If that is not found, it uses the file xserverrc in the xinit library directory. To determine the server to run, startx first looks for a file called.

If command line client options are given, they override this behavior and revert to the xinit behavior. If that is not found, it uses the file xinitrc in the xinit library directory. To determine the client to run, startx first looks for a file called.

You may need to specify server options with startx to change the color depth, dots per inch, or a different server layout, as permitted by the Xorg server and nf. The special argument ' -' marks the end of client arguments and the beginning of server options. It is often run with no arguments.Īrguments immediately following the startx command are used to start a client in the same manner as xinit. The startx script is a front end to xinit that provides a somewhat nicer user interface for running a single session of the X Window System.

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