I use Mandrake w/ kdm and I just createded and .Xclients file in my home
directory to start Blackbox. When you choose you session in kdm choose
default and it will use the Xclients file. .Xclients must be executable..
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Kimber [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 12:52 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Solved: starting apps with GUI interface
>
> 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
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
