Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

[Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Monday 12 October 2009 22:56:28 Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 09:32:55PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
> > The box boots automatically into IceWM in 32 seconds from a standing
> > start.
> >
> > I have Idesk configured to my satisfaction, and it runs beautifully if I
> > start it manually after I have booted up and IceWM is running.
> >
> > Any attempt, however, to make Idesk also start automatically, results in
> > Idesk running fine - but not X and IceWM.  
> > I think that I need to put "Idesk" into one of the configuration files. 
> > But which????
>
> the way I would do it is in ~/.xinitrc
>
> Idesk &
> ice-wm

Thanks, Andrew.  I hadn't tried that order.  I have now tried it.  It has a 
slightly different background from all the other failure. :-(

Lisi