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From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Message-Id: <199803171655.IAA04424@tao.thought.org>
Subject: Re: XDM
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980317100833.036af40c@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de> from Malte Lance at "Mar 17, 98 10:08:33 am"
To: malte@webmore.com (Malte Lance)
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 08:55:26 -0800 (PST)
Cc: kline@thought.org, spork@cncn.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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According to Malte Lance:
> At 14:38 16.03.98 -0800, you wrote:
> >According to Spike Gronim:
> >	The things that you must have in your /home account are 
> >	an ~/.xsession file  that had the xterms, and other x tools
> >	that you want; and the name on the WM.  For example
> >
> >	xterm -fn 9x15bold &
> >	ctwm &
> 
> The last process started should not be a background-process:
> <start some processes (xterm and such) as background-processes>
> xterm &
> xclock &
> xeyes & 
> ... blablabla ...
> exec twm
> 
> This prevents the ~/.xsession-file to exit after starting all the X-stuff.
> When ~/.xsession exits, your X-session will be terminated. With "exec twm"
> in your ~/.xsession-file your ~/.xsession quits when twm is killed and
> therefor your X-session is terminated when twm is killed.
> If you are not happy with twm replace it with some other WM.
> 

	Thanks.  That's what I get for dashing off a response so
	quickly.  The WM can be exec'd or done as a sh script and
	that exec'd:

	:
	xterm &
	xload &
	.
	.
	.
	ctwm 
> 


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   Gary D. Kline         kline@tao.thought.org          Public service uNix


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