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     44 <h1>Starting X without Xinit</h1>
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     46 <p>Most people who don&rsquo;t use a desktop environment use the <code>startx</code> command to
     47 initialize their X windowing system. Now, <code>startx</code> is a shell script that runs
     48 the C program <code>xinit</code> which basically runs <code>xorg-server</code>. Using xinit obviously
     49 has some nice perks. It makes some checks and runs your .xinitrc file. We don&rsquo;t
     50 need any of that though. Here is my X launcher:</p>
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     52 <pre><code class="sh">#!/bin/sh
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     54 export DISPLAY=${DISPLAY:-:0}
     55 trap "$HOME/.xinitrc" USR1
     56 
     57 (
     58     trap '' USR1
     59 
     60     exec X -keeptty :0 vt1
     61 ) &amp;
     62 
     63 wait
     64 </code></pre>
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     66 <p>You need to keep in mind that your .xinitrc should be an executable.</p>
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