Hi Jari On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 05:20:08PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: > Ola Lundqvist <[email protected]> writes: > > >> It appears that tightvncserver installs as: > >> > >> /usr/bin/Xtightvnc > > > > > > This is actually intentional. The reason is that you should start > > it with the command tightvncserver. The Xtightvnc is likely not > > what you want to start. > > In this case the /usr/bin/Xtightvnc is a user command, because it's > installed under /usr/bin. Non-user commands get installaed elsewhere, > like /var/lib/<package>
Yes of course. But it is not the usual way to invoke it, just like Xorg. > > I mean you probably start X with "startx" and not with the > > "Xorg" command, right? > > Usually yes, but it can be invoked directly. This happens in cases where > you need to debug things, and reduce layers that may affect the command > invocation. Yes. > Having all user callable programs, how seldom callable they be, in > lowercase would be more clean approach[1]. It would 1)reduce typing > mistakes both in command line and scripts 2) allow TAB completion to > work and 3) would not create special cases; e.g. for find(1) The day you convince the xorg maintainers to change the name from Xorg to xorg I will change this software as well. :-) Best regards, // Ola > Jari > > [1] Modern gnome-* and kde* commands are good examples of this. > -- --- Inguza Technology AB --- MSc in Information Technology ---- / [email protected] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [email protected] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | http://inguza.com/ Mobile: +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
