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Re: X Background



On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 06:27:58PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 04:33:53PM -0500, D. W. Wieboldt wrote:
> > > xsetroot -solid [color] &  is just fine for one color.  For a little
> > 
> > xsetroot runs and terminates; no need for the & as far as I can tell.
> 
> Isn't that an .xsession issue though? I had the impression that the first
> foreground process was to be taken as the "windowmanager" (I cant think of
> a better word... windowmanager as an equivalent (controlling process?)),
> and when it exits, so does the X session. I am probably wrong, but there
> is only one way to learn!

It exits immediately, which means there's no advantage to using &
(either way, it will return immediately). You can do

xsetroot -solid color
fvwm2

and that will work fine, ie fvwm2 will come up straight away.


Hamish
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