Bug 5993

Summary:	XFree86-3.3.5: startx fails if user has .xserverrc
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	bluca
Component:	XFree86	Assignee:	Preston Brown <pbrown>
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Description bluca 1999-10-15 17:19:18 UTC

or /etc/X11/xinit/Xserverrc for that matter
I believe it applies to all XFree86-3.3.5 packages.

patch follows,
besides putting an exec before xinit seems a good

--- /usr/X11R6/bin/startx       Sat Sep 25 00:20:19 1999
+++ /home/bluca/bin/startx      Fri Oct 15 19:11:04 1999
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
 xauth add $display . $mcookie
 xauth add `hostname -f`$display . $mcookie

-xinit $clientargs -- $display $serverargs
+xinit $clientargs -- $serverargs $display

 # various machines need special cleaning up,
 # which should be done here

Comment 1 Preston Brown 2002-01-07 15:27:13 UTC

long ago fixed.