# startx configuration file.
-# Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Simon Ruderich
+# Copyright (C) 2011-2013 Simon Ruderich
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+# Some systems don't set the LANG environment variable when starting xinitrc,
+# this causes problems for rxvt-unicode-256color which fails to display UTF-8
+# characters correctly when LANG is missing and for notify.py which also needs
+# LANG set (for Python's decode() function). Therefore set it here, might be
+# overwritten by shell setup scripts.
+LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+export LANG
+
+
# Start ssh-agent if we have private keys, thanks to
# http://code.haskell.org/XMonadContrib/scripts/xinitrc (read on 2011-06-19).
if test -x /usr/bin/ssh-agent && test -f "$HOME/.ssh/id_rsa"; then
fi
# Change the background if available.
-if test -f "$HOME/.background" && test -n $set_background; then
+if test -f "$HOME/.background" && test -n "$set_background"; then
if test -x /usr/bin/hsetroot; then
hsetroot -full "$HOME/.background"
elif test -x /usr/bin/feh; then
feh --bg-scale "$HOME/.background"
+ # Remove the unnecessary ~/.fehbg file created by `feh`. I don't want
+ # to restore the background, I just run `feh` on each startx run.
+ # --no-fehbg is only available in recent feh releases.
+ rm -f "$HOME/.fehbg"
fi
fi
remind -z1 -k'.shell/bin/notify.py %s &' "$HOME/.reminders" &
fi
+
+# XMonad doesn't start a shell on its own, start one when I login.
+(urxvt || rxvt || xterm) &
+
# Start XMonad.
xmonad