slim.conf uses: login_cmd exec /bin/bash -login /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc instead of: login_cmd exec /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc %session This means a users local ~/.xinitrc is ignored by default. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -av slim 2. set DISPLAYMANAGER="slim" in /etc/conf.d/xdm 3. rc-update add xdm default 4. Modify ~/.xinitrc with something like "exec dwm" or "exec fluxbox" 5. reboot 6. Login to slim using your username and password Actual Results: The xinitrc from /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc is used rather than the user supplied xinitrc. Since I didn't have twm and other packages installed, I got an unusable X. Expected Results: The software should have used my local xinitrc
Please attach the exact package version and the output of emerge --info
Slim-1.3.1-r5 Portage 2.1.7.17 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.31-gentoo-r10 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r10-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T9600_@_2.80GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.4 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo " LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl amd64 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dri gdbm gpm hal iconv jpeg mmx modules mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl png pppd python readline reflection savedconfig session spl sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd unicode vim-syntax xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
It is an acceptable default now because users should always have a /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file from x11-apps/xinit but they are NOT guaranteed to have ~/.xinitrc file. Do note, that the path is commented out so users have a hint for what to do.
