On Thu, May23,02 09:56, Jan Schaumann wrote: > 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? >
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