Your Personal .xinitrc File
Individual users don’t have to worry about the configuration of the X Server; it’s handled at the root level of the system, running as a daemon when queried by clients (window managers). The window managers are user processes, and each user has the ability to choose a window manager to suit his or her taste, regardless of the hardware-limited resolutions you’ve defined in the xorg.conf file.
Each user controls how his X11 session looks and acts using a shell script file in his home directory called .xinitrc. One of the most common setup attributes controlled by this file is which window manager is to be invoked to handle the client end of X11’s clientserver architecture during your X session. You also can use this ...
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