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Re[4]: Selecting a default window manager.



"Peter L. Peres" <plp@actcom.co.il> wrote:
>  On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:
>  
>  >"Peter L. Peres" <plp@actcom.co.il> wrote:
>  >
>  >>  plp:~$ cat /usr/X11R6/bin/X
>  >>  #!/bin/sh
>  >>  exec XF86_S3V ${@+"$@"}
>  >>  
>  >
>  >Isn't it an overkill? What's wrong with a symlink from X to a real
>  binary?
>  
>  ;)
>  
>  Think of what happens if you want to add some options on the command line
>  to the server, and some more options that are always added. Ex: -bpp ?? 

This one can be tuned by XF86Config. And since running X as user is anyway
deprecated, one can always put any extra command line switches inside of
/etc/rc.d/rc.4 (or whatever runs xdm).

Regards,

Evgeny


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