On 9/14/05, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Brandin,
> > As you mentioned, another way would be to launch the application
> > without an
> > xterm. How exactly are you launching the application? An xterm is not
> > required to run X programs such as firefox.
> 
> I haven't figured out how to do it.  Firefox needs X-window.  If after
> login, run
> 
> $ startx | firefox.
> 
> It won't work, only Xterm started finally.  Have any suggestion?  TIA.
> BR
> SL

Well, that command says to run the command startx and send it's stdout
into the stdin of firefox.  So that won't work.  If you want Firefox
run when X starts up, add firefox into .xinitrc

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