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How to append commands to startx from console

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MWE

startx && xrandr-invert-colors

Problem

It seems that anything after startx does not get issued in the resulting X session. I'd like to make a bash function that sets up my monitors based on which office I'm working out of. Assuming the *-display commands are xrandr commands, that can be substituted with xrandr-invert-colors:

office-one()
{
    startx
    office-one-display
}

office-two()
{
    startx
    office-two-display
}

Both of these are accessible from the console on startup, and both successfully startx, but everything after that has no effect.

Tried

Spinning until in an X session:

in_xsession()
{
    xhost &> /dev/null

    return !$?
}

office-one()
{
    startx
    until [ in_xsession ]; do done
    office-one-display
}

office-two()
{
    startx
    until [ in_xsession ]; do done
    office-two-display
}

but it has the same behavior.

Question

How do I "append" commands to startx such that they issue in the resulting X session? For convenience, I'd like to be able to do this from a bash function as shown.

Notes

I used xrandr-invert-colors for a visual effect, but you can replace that with any application launch like emacs, firefox, etc..

I am using zsh.

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That's what .xinitrc and .xprofile is for, Note that if you are using a window manager like bspwm they might have there own separate which runs automatically by running them. In that case your XINITRC should looks like something like this:screenshot

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I understand that, but I don't want to have separate `.xinitrc` files or change them based on use ca... (3 comments)
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From what I understand, you can pass a command to the xinit program that will be executed instead of .xinitrc. So you might be able to use

startx sh -c 'xrandr-invert-colors; exec "$HOME/.xinitrc"'
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Didn't work for me (1 comment)

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