Re: .xinitrc not used in Woody?
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 11:48:35 +1100, Douglas Hespe <hespe@acay.com.au> wrote:
> Something odd here:
>
> I upgraded to Woody using dselect and everything went swimmingly.
> I then added in the X11 stuff (version 4, not the old 3.3.6) ran startx
> and again everything looked good. Even after rebooting to get the new
> 2.4.17 kernel to be used things still looked good.
>
> But, after turning the machine off for a few hours, startx leaves me
> without a window manager. In fact it looks as if the last couple of
> items in my .xinitrc are being ignored; I don't get tkdesk or flwm
> starting by themselves. They can be started by hand but then the logout
> button just puts me back in a non-window-managed X11 instead of logging
> me out to a console as happened under potato and even under Woody
> before turning the machine off. I have appended my .xinitrc for any
> suggestions to improve it-- what am I missing or what has changed in
> how it is handled now in Woody?
Are you saying some of the commands are executed, but others are not?
If so, it would appear that some command is not getting backgrounded,
or returning. The only candidate seems to be xplanetbg. Does it
run? Perhaps it's not detaching (backgrounding itself)?
--
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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