From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 014631382C5 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:48:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E1075E088F; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:48:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.io (ciao.gmane.io [116.202.254.214]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A2296E082B for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:48:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l9qmp-0000ok-DV for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 15:48:11 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 1 (Permission denied) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:48:07 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20210207110932.01ecffd7@digimed.co.uk> <96830d1b-efb2-030e-9335-3cecd1bdc75b@sys-concept.com> <20210207192602.1813b992@digimed.co.uk> <71b7546a-2c59-abfa-b3a5-24415103858c@youngman.org.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: eb5b7b9c-dbd6-4cbf-bb0f-9eaa7a8d5392 X-Archives-Hash: 2d080d5104b5a0d1620ad949038e17f9 On 2021-02-10, antlists wrote: > On 09/02/2021 04:44, cal wrote: >>> but it doesn't, when I log-in the XFCE4 is not starting automatically, >>> I have to type manually: startxfce4 >> >> I see you have already solved your problem.  But it bears mentioning: >> .xinitrc is executed by runing `startx`, not by the login shell. > > Indeed, I don't know what "rc" at the end stands for, but if a file ends > in rc it is almost always a *config* file, which is *read* by the target > of interest. It is in no way shape or form an executable of any sort. IIRC, rc originally stood for "run commands", and it contained a list of commands for the application to run during initialization. They are almostly always not executable, but rather configuration commands in some application-specific syntax. -- Grant