[ILUG] XDM question

[Jeff Rose]

Lars Hecking wrote:
> 
> John P. Looney writes:
> >  How do I *always* add a +bs option to X, when it's starting ? On my 32MB
> > vid card, it seems to be a lot snappier with it turned on...
> 
>  There are various init files in subdirs under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11.
>  Check xdm/Xservers and xinit/xserverrc. The latter file may not actually
>  be there, but is refered to in the xinit or startx man page.
> 
>  I would not edit startx. One rpm upgrade and it's gone.

I'm a 'forever newbie', so I'll ask this related question:

Could his card option be put in, say, an executable bash script and then
dropped in his 'autostart' folder (assuming KDE usage, etc.)? I know we
are talking HARDWARE here, so I ask. I tried putting the below commands
in my .xinitrc and it didn't seem to work (yes, I run xdm from bootup on
this box). Somehow I feel the card needs the '+bs' _BEFORE_ X actually
starts, though ...

I use this method for the truetype font server 'xfstt' with SuSE 6.3.
The script is basically:

#!/bin/bash
#
# Start the Truetype Server!
#
/usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt &
/usr/X11R6/bin/xset fp+ inet/127.0.0.1:7101

Is this ridiculous (i.e., a much geekier method?).

Thanks for bearing with this Yank,

Jeff

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