Re: X <-> cpp dependency?

[Amos Shapira <amoss@cs.huji.ac.il>]

In message <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.91.960424134705.4115A-100000@blue.intele.net> you write:
|On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Henk Punt wrote:
|This sounds as if your window manager (fvwm) is immediately crashing
|probably because it cannot find a file it needs (cpp?), so it kicks you

Dunno about fvwm, but one program that uses cpp for sure is xrdb(1),
you can try to use the "-cpp pathname" option to tell it where to look
for cpp. (or -nocpp).

|You can launch X programs from your .fvwmrc file.  I think you can also
|from .xsession (anyone?). 

.xsession is ran by xdm (see xdm(1)).  If you use startx then the file
to edit seems to be .xinitrc (see startx(1)).

Cheers,

--Amos

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