on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 02:27:01AM +0100, Defresne Sylvain (sylvain.defresne@enst-bretagne.fr) wrote: > * kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > > This problem appears to be related to an existing bug against > > xlients-base (#65787), though I don't believe it has the same source. > > I'm trying to figure out just where the problem is arising. > > > > The documented behavior of the 'startx' command is that it can be > > invoked specifying a client or client arguments, or server arguments. > > > > startx [ [client] options ... ] [ -- [ server ] options ... ] > > > > > > E.g.: > > > > $ startx > > $ startx -- -bpp 8 > > $ startx -fg green -bg red > > $ startx rxvt > > $ startx startkde > > > > It's the last two examples which don't work. X starts, then dies, with > > the message, e.g.: > > > > > > xterm: bad command line option "rxvt" > > I think, that it doesn't search in the path, because the following > command work: > > startx /usr/bin/X11/xterm > > while this command fails: > > startx xterm Bingo. Hadn't even thought to try that. Interesting... Need to keep digging here.... -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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