Most people who don’t use a desktop environment use the startx command to
initialize their X windowing system. Now, startx is a shell script that runs
the C program xinit which basically runs xorg-server. Using xinit obviously
has some nice perks. It makes some checks and runs your .xinitrc file. We don’t
need any of that though. Here is my X launcher:
#!/bin/sh
export DISPLAY=${DISPLAY:-:0}
trap "$HOME/.xinitrc" USR1
(
trap '' USR1
exec X -keeptty :0 vt1
) &
wait
You need to keep in mind that your .xinitrc should be an executable.
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