On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Carl Youngblood wrote: > I'm looking for a decent looking window manager rather than the one > that is built into the basic xfree86 package. Any suggestions? None > of the ones I'm interested in (KDE, Gnome, XFCE) is available in the > fink packages list. > I also like simplicity, since Aqua is already managing the screen. I actually use 'twm', and used that since about X11R3. I guess I'm showing my age ;-).
> Another question. I would like to have X server running somewhere > unobtrusively all the time so that I can run X apps without having to > call startx first. Is this a bad idea? If not, where is a good place > to put startup options like this? > In 10.3: System preferences -> Accounts -> Startup Items > I've also noticed that if I run startx from the command line I keep > getting output to my terminal while X is running. Is there a way to > turn this off? > #!/bin/sh exec > .xnoise 2>&1 That will redirect all output and all errors to 'xnoise'. The 'exec' says to do it for the running shell, and since that shell will be the "daddy" of everybody else, it should affect everything started by the shell. Wayne ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
