Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 01:20:47 -0500 From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> To: Eric Lam <ecrim@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X Windows, Blackbox, and VNC Message-ID: <20011125012047.B27951@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <IAEKKLIOEBMAKJIIGEBBCEIECFAA.ecrim@earthlink.net>; from ecrim@earthlink.net on Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 08:03:07PM -0800 References: <IAEKKLIOEBMAKJIIGEBBCEIECFAA.ecrim@earthlink.net>
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in message <IAEKKLIOEBMAKJIIGEBBCEIECFAA.ecrim@earthlink.net>, wrote Eric Lam thusly... > ... > You know how VNC creates a default ~/.vnc/xstartup? Is there a way to > automically specify xstartup to use blackbox, instead of the default windows > manager? Its rather annoying to configure ~/.vnc/xstartup so that it starts > up blackbox instead of that twm. > a really crude & quick way is to create symlink from twm to blackbox. twm is more or less guaranteed to be on a X Window System, afaik. so vnc does the safest thing. sure, it's not automagic, but why is it so hard to edit a line? ...unless, you are talking about changes to hundreds of users' files. but even in that case, a short perl program would take care of that too. - parv To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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