To commit my solution to public record... I solved this problem by moving the window invocation out of xinitrc and into windowmaker's domain. This was trivially difficult since the commandline (Eterm -M "" ) didn't translate well and those quotes got mixed up. It turns out that if you run (Eterm -M) it will give an error and not startup with wmaker. But if you run (Term -M blah), notice no quotes, where blah is a filename that doesn't exist, everything works fine. And in the grand tradition of net caveats: YMMV. Thanks for all the email suggestions... -Jonathan On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 06:01:59PM -0400, Jonathan Lupa wrote: > I tried to dig an answer out of deja but failed. Basicly, my xinitrc > has the following... > -- > # I'm a fat lazy slob (but I'm also unaddressable) > xhost + & > # It would be nice to use coral all the time... > # xscreensaver -no-splash & > # Setup the bottom window > Eterm -M "" --name Messages --title Messages --watch-desktop --trans --shade --no-cursor --geometry 120x10+278+634 --exec /usr/bin/tail --lines 200 --follow /var/log/messages 2>/dev/null & > wmaker > -- > But the background loaded from wmaker isn't up in time for eterm to do > the transparency so it defaults to some default background *blech*. > Ideas? (I'm sure this has been solved a million times). -- jjlupa@jamdata.net GPG public key available from http://lupavista.jamdata.net/gpg.asc ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lament 1750: "If I only had a radioactive decay source and a fast free-running oscillator..."
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