If you are using the GUI login like that with Mandrake, which I think uses
kdm, you cannot start apps in the Slit by putting commands in the .xinitrc
file, as is normally recommended.
After much experimentation, it seems that a way round the problem, if not the
solution, is as follows:
Create a file with execute permission in your path, say /usr/local/bin/startBB
that contains something like:
#!/bin/sh
bbppp -w & # or whatever you want
exec /usr/local/bin/blackbox # or wherever BlackBox is
Then edit the BlackBox section of the file
/etc/X11/window-managers
so that it executes the above file instead of directly executing BlackBox
It seems that the GUI login takes its info from this file and executes the
relevant script for the window manager you choose.
Hope this saves someone some frustration.
- Richard.
Richard Kimber
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http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
