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Old 19th May 2008
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Originally Posted by BSDfan666 View Post
X won't display anything on your "desktop" unless you explicitly start something...
Technically, this is correct; starting an X server by itself will not start any additional X applications, nor should it do so, & I suspect this was your point.

However, most users start X via the startx script. Unless ~/.xinitrc exists, startx will invoke /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc which starts the fvwm(1) window manager, xclock, xterm, & xconsole.
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