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From: RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: re: xinit lacks init in it
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Date: 31 Aug 88 12:48:00 GMT
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    Date: 31 Aug 88 06:00:59 GMT
    From: ncar!tank!kaon!arthur!paul@AMES.ARC.NASA.GOV  (Paul Burchard)

    Jim Fulton has let us know where we stand on R3 (and beyond).  Basically,
    the official xinit will allow "xinit" to be a synonym for "xinit .xinitrc".

We aren't ruling out changes in the future; we've just made a decision that
significant changes to xinit for R3 are not a high priority for us.

    But it looks like a real init program will
    have to be contrib'ed.

That would certainly help.  However, we have been doing some work on an
"xlogin daemon" (which may or may not make it into R3) to replace the
xterm -L cruft; the current design has some of the features you are
asking for, and we realize that xinit ought to have functionality
equivalent to whatever is put into the daemon.