Re: gdm startup (xsession)
On Fri, 3 May 2002 11:21:50 -0700 Richard Otte <otte@cats.ucsc.edu>
wrote:
> I'm not sure why, but it is now working! I did take out the '&' at
> the end of the 'exec wmaker&' file, and perhaps that is what did it
> (but I don't know why that didn't work before?). Anyway, I appreciate
> the help, and it is working fine now. Thanks.
When started, the X server executes all the commands in the .xsession
file, in sequence, until the last one exits. Then it exits too, and
control is returned to the shell or the display manager.
So when you had "exec wmaker&", the X server would execute it, the shell
would return immediatelly after backgrounding the command, and the X
server would quit.
In general, the last command in an .xsession file should *not* be
backgrounded.
--
Carlos Sousa
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