on Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 05:06:21PM +0100, Paul J Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>>>> "BN" == Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > BN> Then when I try to login, I get dumped out, presumably because > BN> .xsession doesn't end with a line like > > BN> exec wmaker & > > You need to remove the ampersand, i.e. leave wmaker in the foreground > so that the shell executing your .xsession/.xinitrc doesn't exit.
To expand on this, the .xinitrc script is what runs _as_ your X session. When the script terminates, the session ends. So, typically, the last command in the script is an invocation of a window manager, as a forground process. 'exec'ing this program is a traditional step. This overlays the shell running the .xinitrc with the windowmanager, the effect being that you reduce your process table count by one -- you haven't forked the process (creating a new one), you've replaced the shell with the command you want to run. This is considered more elegant, and may help preserve resources on a multiuser system. -- Karsten M. Self <[email protected]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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