On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:32:05AM +0000, Chris wrote:
> I am trying to get a new wm (scrotwm) and added it to .xinitrc but
> it's not working. Every time I press ALT-CRTL-Backspace and log back
> again, I get landed on fvwm. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.
> The same .xinitrc works on another box running bash shell for a normal
> user.
First, the obvious . . . is scrotwm installed?
>
> My shell is ksh, user chris is a normal user (user's group is "user").
> The .xinitrc file is owned by chris:user
> and has permission: -rw-r--r--
>
> Here's my .xinitrc file:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> /usr/local/bin/scrotwm
montagueneal# whereis scrotwm
/usr/X11R6/bin/scrotwm
or try just exec scrotwm
>
> if [ "$SSH_AGENT_PID" ]; then
> ssh-add -D < /dev/null
> eval `ssh-agent -s -k`
> fi
> xidle -delay 3 -sw -program "/usr/X11R6/bin/xlock -mode bat" -timeout 5
>
> --
>
> I have also tried /usr/local/bin/scrotwm & and exec
> /usr/local/bin/scrotwm & but no luck.
>
> Thanks.