On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 09:03, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > Ed Hill wrote: > > > > I also use Enlightenment (v0.16) with the Gnome panel and I launch it > > with the following ~/.Xclients file: > > > > #============= > > /usr/bin/panel >& /dev/null & > > enlightenment > > #============= > > > > It has worked well for me on RH 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3. Perhaps this > > will be better than your .xinitrc approach? > > I'm actually using .xsession rather than .xinitrc; my mistake. > I've now got > > panel --sm-disable > /dev/null 2>&1 & > exec enlightenment > > in ~/.xsession, but the behaviour is unchanged.. H'm. I've never > been entirely straight on the whole .xinitrc/.Xclients/.xsession/... > mess; the documentation has seemed contradictory.
Yes, the documentation is both confusing and incorrect. The reason is that distros often use X startup scripts that are modified from the "stock" or "vanilla" XFree86 install as described in the X man pages. If you read the X startup scripts for your distro, they'll show you precisely what is *actually* happening. So what distro are your using? If you're using Red Hat, my .Xclients recommendation as described above will work just fine and your .xsession approach is junk. For the reason why, see the last if-block within the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc script. For other distros, I recommend that you do a little code-diving to see how their X start-up scripts work. They're probably similar. hth, Ed -- Edward H. Hill III, PhD | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Post-Doctoral Researcher | URLs: http://www.eh3.com Division of ESE | http://wasser.mines.edu/people/edhill.php Colorado School of Mines | Phone: 303-273-3483 Golden, CO 80401 | Fax: 303-273-3311 Key fingerprint = 5BDE 4DA1 66BE 4F7B BC17 3A0C 932B 7266 1E76 F123 _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
