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From: philf@med-isg.stanford.edu (Phil Fernandez)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X11 startup file/script
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Date: 24 Apr 88 23:26:43 GMT
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The X11 manual pages make repeated reference to "your X startup file"
or "your X startup script" (qv. xsetroot, xrdb).  Can someone tell me
what these references mean?  Do they simply refer to a shell script
that one might manually run after starting the server and xterm, or
does X contain some (poorly-documented) provision for processing a
startup script upon startup?

phil fernandez
Stanford University Medical School
philf@med-isg.stanford.edu