On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 09:11:29PM +0200, Marcus Hagn wrote:
> Hi,
> this has not directly anything to do with blackbox.
> but in the recent memory usage hype i also took a
> closer look into my ps list and i saw some strange things.
>
> my .xinitrc file looks something like
>
> sleep 1 && bbapp1 &
> sleep 2 && bbapp2 &
> .
> .
> .
> exec blackbox
>
> if i start my apps without the sleep commandos, these are gone ( leaving me
> with a scrambled slit :( ). Can sombody explain this to me. Where do these
> shells come from. I am a bit clueless.
>
xinitrc is run by a shell. Every shell command you give it will fork off a new
shell.
Dunno a better way to do what you want sorry )-: