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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce Xorg 7.4 to the X11 configuration section
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On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:57:13 +0300, Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~manolis/x11.diff
>
> I a bit unsure about the .xinitrc and .xsession remove & restore dance
> suggested in the patch.
>
> I'm inside a GDM session now and cannot test this, but I think the
> following should work without changing anything in the default .xinitrc
> or .xsession file of the user:
>
>    $ startx /usr/local/bin/xterm -- :1
>
> I'll test this a few minutes later, but if it works most of the new text
> of the patch is not necessary.

Works here.  The best documentation is the documentation that's not 
needed, so this seems like a good way to go.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA