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 havemade 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!
You must have one program started in the foreground (i.e. without the "&"). Simply put, your X session terminates when the .xsession files terminates. So you can have: xterm as an .xsession file and then you just "exit" the xterm to end your session. Or, assuming you will want to start a window manager too: #!/bin/sh # # Local Xsession file. # Start window manager first... (I use fvwm) fvwm & wmpid=$! # ...then the other stuff (all running in the background) xterm & # etc. # Wait for window manager to terminate. wait $wmpid The "wait $wmpid" will block until your window manager terminates. So with this .xsession file, you quit the window manager to end your X session. Christian PS Maybe a sample .xsession file should be put in /usr/doc/examples/something...
