check out xtoolwait! here's my .xinitrc. it takes the dockapps a little longer to start up, but i don't have to fiddle with sleeps, and they always start in the correct order.
non-slit programs start up immediately, so blackbox and my xterm are up immediately, so i can be typing while the last couple dockapps come up. #!/bin/bash host=`hostname -s` xhost + $HOME/progs/perl/xmodmap_kludge ~/.dvorak | xmodmap - /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 223 = F30" # Sleep key /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 165 = F33" # calculator key /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keysym Super_L = Meta_L Super_L" /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keysym Super_R = Meta_R Super_R" $HOME/progs/perl/t n _logged in xrdb $HOME/.Xdefaults xtoolwait='/usr/X11R6/bin/xtoolwait -timeout 1' export QT_XFT="true" if [[ $host == raven ]]; then export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libgdkxft.so" fi # # Startup the window manager first # /usr/local/bin/blackbox & wmpid=$! $xtoolwait -mappings 2 bbkeys -t # # Do _not_ put xtoolwait in the background # xtoolwait xterm -j -fa 'nimbus mono' -ls -g 80x24+0-16 -bg black -bd red -cr yellow -fg yellow -sb -sl 5000 +ah -name Run $xtoolwait bbappconf -d $xtoolwait lavaps $xtoolwait wmmon $xtoolwait asmon $xtoolwait wmfire -L1 -s -B0 if [[ $host == raven ]]; then $xtoolwait wmgtemp -s fahrenheit -g block -M 45 fi $xtoolwait aterm -sh 60 -tr -ls -fn 6x10 -g 10x6 -cr green -fg green +sb -name dockterm $xtoolwait /usr/local/bin/wmswallow -focus -geom 64x64 dockterm $xtoolwait wmnet -w -t blue -r red -x 10000000 -l -W eth0 $xtoolwait asclock -theme $HOME/.asclock/Freeamp -d -12 -noblink $xtoolwait wmMoonClock -lat 33.40133 -lon 111.55625 $xtoolwait wmSun -lat 33.40 -lon 111.556 $xtoolwait $HOME/scripts/keys if [[ $host == raven ]]; then $xtoolwait ssh ocotillo /usr/local/bin/bbmail -w else $xtoolwait bbmail -w fi xset m 20/10 4 s 0 dpms 300 1200 1500 wait $wmpid On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 02:38:40PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > I've only been using blackbox for a few months, but it is certainly my > favorite WM in the more than two years I've been using Linux. My only beef > with it so far is the slit... and not so much how it looks or works, but how > programs are loaded into it. > > I've searched through the archives, and seen the hacks people have done to > get dockapps, bbtools, and whatnot to load in a specified order, and to date > I have been unable to get 100% compliance on my machine. About 1 in 4 times > or more, the apps I load into it come in a randy order. > > I saw somewhere, when I was first trying out blackbox, a little application > somebody had written to insure that apps came in in the appropriate order... > but since I didn't know what that meant at the time, I ignored it and > promptly lost the URL. > > I've tried hacks like: > bbrun & > sleep 1 && bbpager & > sleep 1 && wmusic & > etc., but these are not consistent. > > Any _other_ ideas anyone? > > Thanks, > Matthew
