On 7/26/02 6:20P, Brandon Potter enlightened us with:
> Another common cause for XFree86 startup failures is an incorrect
> .xinitrc file. What happens is that the .xinitrc is run and for some
> reason terminates almost immediately. xinit interprets this as "the
> user's session has ended" and kills XDarwin. See the .xinitrc section
> for more details. Remember to set up the PATH and to have one long-lived
> program that is not started in the background. It is a good idea to add
> exec xterm as a fallback when your window manager or similar can't be
> found.
If anyone is curious how to do this, this is what is at the end of my
.xinitrc file. It checks to see if BlackBox is available first, and if not,
falls back on a vanilla xterm (and hopefully twm).
# set up windowmanager
if which blackbox 2>&1 >/dev/null ;then
bbkeys -i &
bbpager &
exec blackbox
else
twm &
exec xterm
fi
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- bass guitar, downtempo electronica
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