/usr/pkg/bin/xterm -geometry 80x46+0+0 -title "$(date "+%A ----- %d - %B - %Y")"
HOW do I add '[40m' into the -title arg to make the date printed in black? On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 3:48 PM Robert Elz <k...@munnari.oz.au> wrote: > > Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:08:19 -0500 > From: Todd Gruhn <tgru...@gmail.com> > Message-ID: > <ca+9akf93n98k6kjnhw8s5gnb1hehp_wgva8y4qgs9gen+x4...@mail.gmail.com> > > | "startx -- -- " is always used because that is what I learned around 2005. > > Weird. I don't think that was ever rational. > > | Does this matter? Does it change how X starts? > > No, and no. > > Unless you give other options to startx, what matters is what is in the > xinitrc file that is used (~/.xinitrc or .../X11/xinit/xinitrc where ... is > /etc > for the xsrc version, not sure if it moves with pkgsrc modular X11). > Startx is just a convenient way to run xinit properly. > > For anyone reading, startx is an ancient script, predates getopts (probably > getopt(1) as well). > > Any '--' args are simply ignored, except that args that precede the first -- > are > for the client, and args that follow the first -- are for the server. Those > args > can be the client name, server name, options to those, and other args (like > which > DISPLAY to use). The '--' doesn't have its getopt[s] "options precede this, > other > args follow" meaning. > > startx without any other options can have as many --'s as desired, they do > nothing > except waste a trivial amount of script processing time. > > kre
