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Gecko/20010326


startx incorrectly handles passing a nondefault server to xinit. startx
passes .xserverrc, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserverrc, and command line
overridden servers to xinit on it's command line, but they get treated as
server arguments. In the case of .xserverrc that means the server will get
some funny arguments (because xinit calls .xserverrc by itself anyway), in
the case of [no dot]xserverrc or a command line server those options won't
work at all.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.startx -- /bin/true OR

1.echo 'exec X $*' > ~/.xserverrc
2.startx

Actual Results:  server complains about funny server arguments /bin/true or
~/.xserverrc, /bin/true doesn't get executed as the server

Expected Results:  /bin/true gets executed as the server, .xserverrc and
/bin/true not passed in as arguments

I believe this patch is nice and correct

--- startx~	Thu Aug 31 06:54:16 2000
+++ startx	Fri Apr 20 12:00:05 2001
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@
 fi
 
 if [ -f $userserverrc ]; then
-    serverargs=$userserverrc
+    server=$userserverrc
 else if [ -f $sysserverrc ]; then
-    serverargs=$sysserverrc
+    server=$sysserverrc
 fi
 fi
 
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 
	    fi
 
	else
 
	    if [ "x$serverargs" = x ]; then
-
		serverargs="$1"
+
		server="$1"
 
	    else
 
		serverargs="$serverargs $1"
 
	    fi