X startup & immediate shutdown (no errors)

["Drew Cohan" <drewcohan@drewcohan.com>]

Can anyone please tell me why X shuts down on its own in the following
situation? I want it to keep running continuously.

 

I have no window manager installed (don't need one), I've got
xserver-xfree86 installed, I can use startx fine.  So I type startx, X
comes up, reads my .xsession file:

 

#!/bin/sh

/path/to/myprogram

sleep 10

 

which runs my program for ten seconds and then X shuts down by itself
(no errors).  So the question becomes, how do I keep X running after it
executes my .xsession file?  What is it looking for/to do next?

 

Thanks,

 

Drew Cohan

debian@drewcohan.com