Re: Tweeking xterm -title

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:08:19 -0500
    From:        Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <CA+9Akf93n98K6KJNhw8S5gnb1hehP_wGVA8Y4qgS9gen+x4UXg%mail.gmail.com@localhost>

  | "startx -- -- " is always used because that is what I learned around 2005.

Weird.   I don't think that was ever rational.

  | Does this matter? Does it change how X starts?

No, and no.

Unless you give other options to startx, what matters is what is in the
xinitrc file that is used (~/.xinitrc or .../X11/xinit/xinitrc where ... is /etc
for the xsrc version, not sure if it moves with pkgsrc modular X11).
Startx is just a convenient way to run xinit properly.

For anyone reading, startx is an ancient script, predates getopts (probably
getopt(1) as well).

Any '--' args are simply ignored, except that args that precede the first -- are
for the client, and args that follow the first -- are for the server.   Those args
can be the client name, server name, options to those, and other args (like which
DISPLAY to use).  The '--' doesn't have its getopt[s] "options precede this, other
args follow" meaning.

startx without any other options can have as many --'s as desired, they do nothing
except waste a trivial amount of script processing time.

kre