Ciprian Popovici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > start anything you want in either ~/.xinitrc if you use startx or > > ~/.xsession if you use kdm/xdm. > > And make sure you start them in background (for .xinitrc at least) > because anything in the foreground will determine the life-span of > your X session. It dies, X ends.
Well, not quite. If you have foo bar in your ~/.xinitrc, it will first execute foo, but if foo exits, X does not close, but bar will be executed. Only after bar exits, does the X session end. Usually, though, you'd use foo & exec bar to ensure that the running X process is overlayn (sp?) with the process of 'bar'. To the OP: this is, I think _the_ most FAQ, and has been answered on this ML several times - browsing the archive should have revealed this. To Shaleh: maybe we _do_ want to include a link to the FAQ on the website? -Jan
