From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 24 22:19:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A8D737B405 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 22:19:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdn-ar-007dcwashp293.dialsprint.net ([63.178.90.159] helo=moo.holy.cow) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 167sdB-0003ad-00; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 22:19:10 -0800 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id F077F50CF0; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 01:20:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 01:20:47 -0500 From: parv To: Eric Lam Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X Windows, Blackbox, and VNC Message-ID: <20011125012047.B27951@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Eric Lam , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from ecrim@earthlink.net on Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 08:03:07PM -0800 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 in message , 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