[ANNOUNCE] xinit 1.0.9

[Julien Cristau]

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 09:35:41 -0700, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> So... why does xserverrc start the server as :0 if you start it as '/ 
> path/to/xserverrc :1' ?

Because the xserverrc doesn't expect any arguments.
It contains
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/X11/X -nolisten tcp

and I don't remember ever changing it.

> That sounds like a bug with the xserverrc to me 
> rather than startx...  I would consider it a bug (or atleast obscure, 
> poorly defined behavior) that startx switched to using /usr/X11/bin/X 
> rather than ~/.xserverrc if all you did was give it command line options.
>
That's been its behavior forever afaik.  And that's also what I
understand from the manpage.

Cheers,
Julien