The xinit package contains a usable script to start the xserver.
This package is not a part of the Xorg katamari and is provided only as a dependency to other packages or for testing the completed Xorg installation.
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the book.
Download (HTTP): https://www.x.org/pub/individual/app/xinit-1.4.1.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/xinit-1.4.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 6d506ab2efc17a08e87778654e099d37
Download size: 178 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.5 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
twm-1.0.12,
xclock-1.1.1, and xterm-372 (used in the default
xinitrc
file)
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xinit
Install xinit by running the following commands:
./configure $XORG_CONFIG --with-xinitdir=/etc/X11/app-defaults && make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root
user:
make install && ldconfig