feh/themes: Minor documentation update.

[config/dotfiles.git] / xinitrc

diff --git a/xinitrc b/xinitrc
index d60a2ec4acd26baf65647e3b133b7970326a1467..c1a96fb7853f16b771efea8ab10c414f20ee5775 100755 (executable)
--- a/xinitrc
+++ b/xinitrc
@@ -2,31 +2,80 @@
 
 # startx configuration file.
 
+# 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
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# 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
+    # -s to force bourne shell output. This file is a bourne shell script even
+    # if the environment might suggest otherwise.
+    eval `/usr/bin/ssh-agent -s`
+fi
 
 # Use a black background for the root window.
 xsetroot -solid black
 
 # Force English keyboard layout.
-if [ -x /usr/bin/setxkbmap ]; then
+if test -x /usr/bin/setxkbmap; then
     setxkbmap us
 fi
 
 # Use my X11 key bindings.
-xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc
+xmodmap "$HOME/.xmodmaprc"
+
+# Default to use a background image. Can be disabled in .xinitrc.local.
+set_background=yes
+
+# Load settings for the local system.
+if test -f "$HOME/.xinitrc.local"; then
+    . "$HOME/.xinitrc.local"
+fi
 
 # Change the background if available.
-if [ -f ~/.background ]; then
-    # But not on slow machines in the university.
-    HOSTNAME=`hostname`
-    if [ "x`echo $HOSTNAME | grep faui0sr`" = x ]; then
-        if [ -x /usr/bin/hsetroot ]; then
-            hsetroot -full ~/.background
-        elif [ -x /usr/bin/feh ]; then
-            feh --bg-scale ~/.background
-        fi
+if test -f "$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
 
+# Display timed reminders and recheck the file for changes every minute (-z1).
+if test -x /usr/bin/remind && test -f "$HOME/.reminders"; then
+    remind -z1 -k'.shell/bin/notify.py %s &' "$HOME/.reminders" &
+fi
+
+
+# XMonad doesn't start a shell on its own, start one when I login.
+(urxvt || rxvt || xterm) &
+
 # Start XMonad.
 xmonad