Re: X query..
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote:
> Hi Michael Beattie; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
> > Whenever I start X, I get an xterm automatically opening. Is there a way
> > to stop this? I have never minded until now, but now I usually close it
> > straight away. The reason I ask is that it does not appear to be a result
> > of one of the windowmanagers opening. there is a routine in the Xsession
> > file:
> >
> > case $# in
> > 1)
> > case $1 in
> > failsafe)
> > if grep -q ^allow-failsafe /etc/X11/config
> > then
> > exec xterm -geometry 80x24-0-0
> > fi
> > ;;
> > esac
> > esac
> >
> > but even after commenting it out, (and removing "allow-failsafe" in
> > /etc/X11/config as well) it does not stop..
>
> If you have the "stock" Xsession file (not manually edited) it should contain
> one other line few paragraphs down from the place you are quoting:
>
> then
> exec $startup
> else
> rxvt -ls -geometry 80x12+2+2 -T 'login@camelot' &
> if [ -e /etc/X11/window-managers ]
> then
> for i in `sed 's/#.*//' /etc/X11/window-managers`
> do
>
> Notice the line starting (in my case) with "rxvt"? This is the one that will
> work under normal conditions and start up your "xterm" (I have manually edited
> my file to use rxvt instead of the xterm)...
Sorry, I didn't look enough!, thanks :)
Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)
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