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On Mon, Dec 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM Jon Turney wrote:

> 'man startxwin' says that the applicable files in this case are
> /etc/X11/xinit/startxwinrc and ~/.startxwinrc.
>
> Not sure if there's a good way to add customizations into that. But a
> ~/.startxwinrc which does:
>
> custom-command-i-want &
> exec /usr/bin/xwin-xdg-menu
>
> should get you most of the way there...

Thanks, Jon.  That got me most of the way there.  I had to add a call
to xrdb.  I hope this was the right place (it seems to be):

# cat .startxwinrc

xwinclip >& /dev/null &
xrdb ~/.Xresources
exec /usr/bin/xwin-xdg-menu

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Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert AT alum DOT mit DOT edu>, https://ad1c.us

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