Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 08:55:26 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: malte@webmore.com (Malte Lance) Cc: kline@thought.org, spork@cncn.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XDM Message-ID: <199803171655.IAA04424@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980317100833.036af40c@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de> from Malte Lance at "Mar 17, 98 10:08:33 am"
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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 > -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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