Re: how to configure users X setup?

[M-L <rose_snug@bigpond.com>]

On Thursday 14 June 2007 09:04, Andrew Sackville-West shared this with us all:
>--} On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 04:33:53AM +1000, M-L wrote:
>--} > On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:47:56 +0100
>--} > Tom Furie <tom@lamont.dyndns.org> wrote:
>--} >
>--} > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 05:04:14PM +0000, M-L wrote:
>--} > >
>--} > > > #!/bin/sh
>--} > > > #
>--} > > > # My creation .Xsession file
>--} > > > #
>--} > > > # To remove the cursor after a short break
>--} > > > unclutter -idle 1 &
>--} > > > # To get up the Rox panel
>--} > > > rox -b=MyPanel &
>--} > > > # Have gkrellm working
>--} > > > gkrellm &
>--} > > > # Start Fluxbox, maybe it should be up top. Not according to
> Liam's example --} > > > exec /usr/bin/fluxbox &
>--} > >
>--} > > Try without the & in the above line.
>--} > >
>--} > > Cheers,
>--} > > Tom
>--} > >
>--} > > --
>--} > > Anti-trust laws should be approached with exactly that attitude.
>--} >
>--} >
>--} > Brilliant Tom, but absobloominlootly brilliant - that did it, works
> like a treat. --}
>--} just in case you missed why... X runs until it has completed
>--} everything in the .Xsession file. Once that's done, it kicks out and
>--} either dies, or respawns itself depending on how you started X
>--} ()startx vs *dm). SO with the & after fluxbox, you allowed fluxbox to
>--} move into the background and X to move on through the .Xsession
>--} file. Thus you were starting all that stuff up everytime you logged
>--} in, but then X died at the end of .Xsession and you were back at the
>--} xdm prompt :)
>--}
>--} A
>--}

Thanks for that excellent explanation. Now I know why, what happened.

Be well,
Charlie
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