From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 19 7:22:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3180737B403 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 07:22:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 65012 invoked by uid 100); 19 Jun 2001 14:22:55 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15151.24639.319811.254267@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 09:22:55 -0500 To: Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X application without starting a desktop In-Reply-To: <128214007@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG midiostri@in.gr types: > Is it possible to run an XWindows application without starting KDE (or = > Gnome etc..) ? > (Something like launching the application together with the Xserver at = > its minimum..) No problem. Just put the command to start your application ~/.xinitrc, and then run startx. When your application exits, X will also exit. You may want to start a window manager as well, so that you can move the applications windows around. There are a lot of them that don't use KDE or Gnome. Personally, I use lwm, so I'd do: lwm & /usr/X11R6/bin/gimp for .xinitrc if I wanted to start and stop GIMP with "startx". You can probably set up aliases to do this without having to fidget with .xinitrc if you want. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message