Re: X Background

[Michael Beattie <mickyb@es.co.nz>]

On 8 Sep 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote:

[snip]
> First xsetroot is run. The script will wait until it has finished.
> that shouldn't take long time and afterwards it continues to put
> xemacs and kvt in the background. Then icewm is run in the
> background. Weird, shouldn't we wait for that. Oh yes, we finish
> with wait $!. $! is the PID of the last process started in the
> background and wait just stands there, waiting for the process
> given as argument to finish. Therefore this .xsession will also
> wait for the windowmanager to finish. Then it will go on
> to execute a program called run_my_logout_cleaner. This will supposedly
> do something clever and when it's finished it will return. When
> it has done so, the script has come to an end, thereby terminating
> our X session.


Okay, I now know something I didn't a day ago.. Thanks :)

                       Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)

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