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Author: Svante Signell
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism
On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 08:48 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:30:16 +0100
> Florian Zieboll <f.zieboll@???> wrote:
>
> > > user@devuan:~$ echo "xfce4-session" > ~/.xinitrc  
> >
> > I already noticed this in your upgrade guide – and especially then it's not
> > unlikely to break things when using this kind of redirection, as a .xinitrc
> > might already exist. Regarding the unexperienced audience you appear to
> > target with your guides, I think there should be at least a footnote that
> > informs about this risk and perhaps also mentions that this is called a
> > "redirection", as a starting point for a related websearch.
>
> Simple enough to change this into:
>
> user@devuan:~$ echo "xfce4-session" >> ~/.xinitrc  


Normally you use exec and an absolute path to start the window manager in
.xinitrc:
exec /usr/bin/xfce4-session