Re: Debian Users...
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 05:30:41PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 22:39:27 +1100, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> said:
>
> > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:40, Tim Connors
> > <tconnors+deblaptop@astro.swin.edu.au>
> > wrote:
> >> > Fvwm is cool. It takes a fair bit of configuration, but it's
> >> > fast, small and absolutely bomb-proof in my experience. And
> >> > several of the newer WMs still don't match its features...
> >>
> >> Bulletproof my oath. One thing you *never* *ever* want to segfault
> >> is your window manager. Because if you have been logged in for 60
> >> days, there is a lot of state stored on your desktop[1] that you
> >> don't want lost when the
>
> > I learnt an interesting trick from a friend at university (Swinburne
> > in fact). He had his .xinitrc configured such that the window
> > manager would run as a child process, and the process that the X
> > server recognised as the window manager was "sleep 1000000000".
>
> here is a better one: I have a Login window instead; my
> session exits when I exit the login window (I generally neve use it).
>
There was a logout button that was running by default in my uni a few
years back (when fvwm and twm were all we had) that I think still exists
somewhere that you press to logout, instead of exiting the window
manager. Its easier to remember what it does and what you need to close
to achieve what you want.
look at the logout-button package.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> # Start some shelltools and the window manager
> if test -x /usr/bin/fvwm2; then
> #fvwm2 -f "FvwmM4 -m4prog /usr/bin/m4 .fvwm2rc" &
> /usr/bin/fvwm2 &
> elif [ -x /usr/bin/fvwm ]; then /usr/bin/fvwm &
> elif [ -x /usr/bin/X11/twm ]; then /usr/bin/X11/twm &
> fi
>
> exec uxterm -ut -T login -n login -bg Black -fg LightSteelBlue \
> -geometry 80x24+10+93 -ls -xrm "*Desk:1"
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> manoj
> --
> I think the best way I've heard this put is "Pascal gives you a water
> pistol filled with distilled water. C not only gives you a loaded
> .357, it points it at your head as a default. Why do you think Pascal
> is taught in school? And which would you rather have when there was a
> hungry bear in the area?" Jim Harkins (jharkins@sagpd1.UUCP)
> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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