Re: startx hangs on WinXP, xinit doesn't

[David dot A dot Barr at Medstar dot net]

In C and Perl programs, a single equals sign is for assignment, but in 
this case it is being used correctly for comparison.  "man test".





Ariel Millennium Thornton <arielmt@thornton2.com>
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08/22/2004 04:25 PM
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Hello, pv.

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:29:04 -0700 (PDT) p v wrote:

[snip]

> if [ x"$XAUTHORITY" = x ]; then
>     XAUTHORITY="$HOME/.Xauthority"
>     export XAUTHORITY
> fi

For a _test_ of equality, there should be two equal signs, not one.  One
equal sign is an assignment, not a test.  What that "if" is testing is
whether the assignment succeeds or not, not whether there really is an
XAUTHORITY or not, and odds are that's what's wrong.