Today at 1:44am, ryu said:
> Well heres one way to atleast get around all X apps being killed.
>
> Don't have exec blackbox as the last call in .xinitrc (or equivalent).
> What I do is have the 'last call' exec a script that is just an infinite
> loop of long sleeps. By doing this when blackbox crashes, it doesn't
> take X with it. You can then just start another blackbox.
>
> But now, when you want to exit X (gracefully) you will have to kill that
> sleep script instead. I've made my 'sleep script' output its pid to a
> tmp file, and I made my exit look at that tmp file and kill the process
> it contains.
>
> Well, that's how I do it anyway.
>
I do it like this (in my .xinitrc):
#!/bin/bash
until blackbox;do :;done
This quits when blackbox quits cleanly (using the [exit] menu option).
Otherwise it will restart Blackbox, and you will not lose your X-session.
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