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From: klee@chico.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Beginner's X Question
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Date: 16 Nov 89 22:46:53 GMT
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In article <Nov.16.11.34.41.1989.1662@police.rutgers.edu>,
bohler@police.rutgers.edu (BOHLER) writes:
> What is the name and location of the file where one gives the x
> startup the commands to do certain things (i.e. open up a window with
> Emacs running in it, declare a raster file background upon
> initialization, etc.) 

This is the job of your session manager.  The DECwindows dxsession
defaults to .X11Startup in your home directory, but you can change
that.  The MIT xdm uses .xsession.  Other session managers may use
other files.  If you're not using a session manager, you can always
just run a shell script by hand.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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