| Summary: |
startx client argument handling inconsistent |
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xorg
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Reporter: |
code |
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App/xinit | Assignee: |
Xorg Project Team <xorg-team> |
| Status: |
RESOLVED
MOVED
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QA Contact: |
Xorg Project Team <xorg-team> |
| Severity: |
normal
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| Priority: |
medium
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| Version: |
unspecified | |
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| Hardware: |
x86-64 (AMD64) | |
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| OS: |
Linux (All) | |
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i915 platform:
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startx handles client arguments without a specific client inconsistently when ~/.xinitrc exists. Documented behaviour in the manpage for xinit when ~/.xinitrc exists: a) According to the description "xinit -arg" results in running "~/.xinitrc -arg" b) This conflicts with the third example (quote: "It will ignore .xinitrc.") Observed xinit behaviour: * Behaviour a) is used. Documented startx behaviour in manpage * If client arguments are given without a client, do the same as xinit. * Use xinitrc if it exists and no client and no client arguments are given. Intended behaviour from sourcecode ("compatibility reasons"): * Use xinitrc if no client and no client arguments are given * Use xterm as the client if only client arguments are given * Otherwise use the given client with the given client arguments Observed startx behaviour: * "startx -arg" -> results in "xinit xterm -arg -- ..." -> results in ~/.xinitrc with arguments $1=xterm, $2=-arg I found two issues with this: 1) "xterm" has to be resolved to an absolute path for xinit to work properly. This would restore the behaviour as intended in the code. The problem can be fixed by setting --with-xterm to an absolute path during ./configure, but DEFAULT_XTERM should be a sane working value as well. Maybe "defaultclient" should be resolved with "which" or "whereis -b". 2) What is the correct behaviour for startx? * the way xinit works and is documented in the description * the way xinit is described in the examples, * the way startx was written including fix 1)? I am using Arch Linux with xorg-xinit 1.3.4-4 ( ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-xinitdir=/etc/X11/xinit )