On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Bartek Kostrzewa wrote:
> You must know that a program can only be iconified correctly if it
> initialises after the window manager, so to solve this, I've done
> following
> in my .xinitrc
>
> ($WMANAGER is a global variable of my distribution which defines the
> default wm for the system)
>
> exec $WMANAGER & #this could be "/usr/bin/blackbox" or similar, dunno if
> the exec is
> bbkeys -i #needed when calling a binary directly.
>
> exit 0
>
>
> Do not put a '&' after bbkeys (only if you did it like me that is!) or the
> system will open a console which when closed, brings down X.
>
>
> Regards,
> Bartek Kostrzewa
>
Hmm... that's odd, seeing as here is what's in one of my user's .xinitrc
files:
> bbkeys -i &
> exec blackbox
Even I have tried this, and it works every time on any of my systems. It
seems that Blackbox will still load before bbkeys if bbkeys is backgrounded.
--gile
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