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From: Joerg Wallerich <ib14-3@broccoli.cs.uni-sb.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: xdm amd logins on boot up......
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 11:38:35 +0100
Organization: Computational Linguistics Dept., U Saarbruecken
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Daniel Hauer wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure if I can ask this question properly but here goes.....
> I run 2.1.0R and Xfree86, with a custom .xinitrc file in each users
> /home directory, is there a way I could start xdm with the login
> screen, and then according to whatever user logs on to the machine,
> run the .xinitrc file in his or her home directory?
> any ideas would be totally appreciated.....
> 


xdm uses $(HOME)/.xsession for user specific configuration.
just create a symbolic link named .xsession to .xinitrc in
the home directory (i.e. ln -s .xinitrc .xsession).

this works at least on my machine.