Xorg and Xinit

Created mandag 24 oktober 2016

Xorg is our display server and Xinit provides a way to start the server.

Xorg

# Install the following packages :
$ pacman -S xorg-server xorg-server-utils xorg-xinit

Xinit

# Xinit provides startx, xinit and a basic xinitrc configuration file.

Xserverrc

# Both startx and xinit executes ~/.xserverrc which is not created by default.
# You should create a ~/.xserverrc file
# The following will help maintain a session and help prevent bypassing the screen locker

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/Xorg -nolisten tcp "$@" vt$XDG_VTNR

Xinitrc

# .xinitrc file can be found at GitHub. Else, follow below for a quick setup.

# Create a copy of the default xinitrc file
$ cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ~/.xinitrc

# By default it starts a few applications. These can be commented out in the ~/xinitrc file.
# You can append applications to start leading with a & (ampersand) for multiple entries.
# Lines after exec won't be read.

application1 &
application2 &
exec dekstop