On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 06:27:58PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 04:33:53PM -0500, D. W. Wieboldt wrote: > > > xsetroot -solid [color] & is just fine for one color. For a little > > > > xsetroot runs and terminates; no need for the & as far as I can tell. > > Isn't that an .xsession issue though? I had the impression that the first > foreground process was to be taken as the "windowmanager" (I cant think of > a better word... windowmanager as an equivalent (controlling process?)), > and when it exits, so does the X session. I am probably wrong, but there > is only one way to learn!
It exits immediately, which means there's no advantage to using & (either way, it will return immediately). You can do xsetroot -solid color fvwm2 and that will work fine, ie fvwm2 will come up straight away. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
