On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:49:58AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> On 19-Jul-2000 elliot schlegelmilch wrote:
> > is it the way my system is set up, or is it the way blackbox performs?
> >
> > i try to kill blackbox and start another window manager, only to be thwarted
> > when x kicks me back into xdm. is one of my .xsession/.xinitrc not correct,
> > or
> > is this the way it is supposted to happen?
> >
>
> X runs every application in your init file, the last application (usually) is
> the one that causes X to exit. So if you exit blackbox, you exit X. You can
> add a window manager to blackbox's menu and have it set to 'Restart' to that
> window manager.
>
> [restart] (Window Manager name here) {binary name here}
Alternatively, run blackbox & and make X stay open some other way
-- an xterm perhaps (I actually use xload for this -- when I kill
xload, X goes away. xterm is convenient, but dangerous if you kill
it accidentally thinking of the wrong xterm :)
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