--On 07 April 2005 14:21 +0200 Alexander Gottwald wrote:
No. Startx uses xinit and xinit tries to connect to the xserver in the way a client would do and repeats it until the server is ready.
That suggests another way to wait for the server. Run some suitably harmless (side-effect free) client in a loop until it succeeds before launching the xterm. "xrdb -query" seems a reasonable candidate.
-- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK
