Re: KDEbian FAQ
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On Wednesday, 15. August 2001 09:18, Jan Albiez wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 08:32:33AM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> > Why "exec"? Only "startkde" will do just fine. What is the advantage of
> > the often seen "exec"? There is not even a help text in the man page and
> > it seems a pretty useless command in a shell (and the above has a shell).
>
> directly from the builtins man page:
> (...)
> exec [-cl] [-a name] [command [arguments]]
> If command is specified, it replaces the shell. No
> new process is created.
> (...)
>
> That means, the shell calling .xsession will be replaced by startkde, which
> means, that you will have a shell less idling around in your process table.
Interesting and hard to find in the man page. But that way, how do you run
other lines in your .xsession? startkde might not be the only, not even the
last one.
Hendrik
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