startx: Source XINITRC and XSERVERRC variables

Fix issue #14

Check XINITRC and XSERVERRC, if those files do not exist then just use
~/.xinitrc and ~/.xserverc as normal.

Signed-off-by: Tim Egenton <tegenton@splattim.me>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/man/startx.man b/man/startx.man
index 2b894f7..2fe952d 100644
--- a/man/startx.man
+++ b/man/startx.man
@@ -71,7 +71,10 @@ startx \-\^\- \-layout Multihead
 .PP
 To determine the client to run,
 .B startx
-first looks for a file called
+first checks the environment variable
+.I XINITRC
+for a filename. If that variable is unset, or does not contain a filename,
+it looks for a file called
 .I .xinitrc
 in the user's home directory.  If that is not found, it uses
 the file
@@ -85,7 +88,10 @@ behavior and revert to the
 behavior.
 To determine the server to run,
 .B startx
-first looks for a file called
+checks the environment variable
+.I XSERVERRC
+for a filename. If that variable is unset, or does not contain a filename,
+it looks for a file called
 .I .xserverrc
 in the user's home directory.  If that is not found, it uses
 the file
@@ -161,6 +167,20 @@ for the local host.  See the
 and
 .IR Xsecurity (__miscmansuffix__)
 manual pages for more information on X client/server authentication.
+.TP 25
+XINITRC
+This variable should contain the location of an xinitrc file. If unset,
+.I $(HOME)/.xinitrc
+or
+.I __xinitdir__/xinitrc
+will be used.
+.TP 25
+XSERVERRC
+This variable should contain the location of an xserver file. If unset,
+.I $(HOME)/.xinitrc
+or
+.I __xinitdir__/xserverrc
+will be used.
 .SH FILES
 .TP 25
 .I $(HOME)/.xinitrc