[Xmonad] initialization when running xmonad using xnest

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Aug 3, 2007, at 17:09 , Michael Vanier wrote:

> Huh, I think I was asking the wrong question then.  I don't really  
> want to do all the things that are done in my .xinitrc file.  I  
> noticed, though, that (for instance) my .Xresources are ignored  
> inside the xnested xmonad, so I have to do

Correct thing to do is have a ~/.xinitrc.Xnest and do:

startx ~/.xinitrc.Xnest -- Xnest :1

(the full pathname to .xinitrc is important, otherwise it runs your  
regular .xinitrc and passes the stuff before the -- as arguments.  on  
the other hand, you could use that to customize your .xinitrc...)

Hm, except that XFree86 broke startx at one point such that it always  
passed them as arguments.  I *think* xorg fixed that, but you should  
test to make sure startx does the right thing in that case.  Or  
possibly use xinit directly instead of startx.   (startx is just a  
wrapper around xinit that invokes a standard system-wide xinitrc and/ 
or xserverrc as needed.  Since you're specifying both the xinitrc and  
an X server, you can safely use xinit directly.)

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