On Sun, 31 Mar 1996, T. Moore wrote: > I really appreciate all the help people have given on this group, it has > been very prompt and pertinent! I almost have everything running great > on my debian machine, but have one last problem. In X, for some strange > reason, if I try to put a .xsession file in my home dir as root or another > user,and run startx, it always just bombs out back to the prompt. I have > made the .xsession file +x, and it just contains one line "xterm &". I > even renamed it to .xinitrc, and .xinit, but to no avail. Anyone have > any idea why it wont read my .xsession? Thanks! > > > > Tom F. Moore, III http://www.acs.appstate.edu/~tm11369 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Simple, short and sweet sig file...
# pared down .xsession -------------- fvwm & # I always sleep so that fvwm can finish loading. # this lets it prevent 'xload' from overlapping xclock, etc. sleep 2 xload & xclock & xpmroot bkg.xpm xosview & sleep 2 # in the real thing, I used 10 options to rxvt -ls means login shell exec rxvt -ls -------------- The '.xsession' file governs the whole X session. When it ends, your login does too. You need to run a 'magic' application with 'exec'. When you quit that application, the X11 session dies. I use an rxvt prompt (xterm works too of course). Another logical choice would be the window manager, but I like to switch wm's sometimes. You could use 'netscape' if you had a screw loose. I'm not sure 'exec' is needed, as long as the script never completes, but I think if you don't use exec, you 1) lose resources to a process which processes the script, and 2) can put 'cleanup' commands after the script. This is all documented I think (scattered across many files). Of course, just about _anything_ could be done with .xsession. It is an amazingly flexible way to set up the system. [EMAIL PROTECTED]/GNU__Linux__1.3.77___ "The C Programming Language -- A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language."
