Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>
> keith tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [snip]
> > I would prefer the system, upon power up, log itself into the proper
> > account, and auto start Xwindow and the application. Is this a
> > realistic objective?
>
> Yes, as long as you make a proper .xinitrc file, which loads your window
> manager (if one is required at all), and your application with the
> geometry you want it to have. For instance, if you want /app/foo to
> cover the entire desktop, with fvwm being the window manager (mostly
> used for moving around popup dialogs), you can get away with an .xinitrc
> as simple as:
>
> fvwm &
> exec /app/foo -geometry 800x600+0+0
>
> assuming, of course, that your desktop size is 800x600. This has
> another nice aspect, once your application exits, the X session will end
> too, which you'll quite likely find a useful feature.
>
> > At present, I have not been able to get the computer auto start
> > Xwindows invoking the fvwm window manager. If I change the run level
> > to 5 in /etc/inittab, Xwindows starts with twm. It uses xdm to start
> > Xwindows. I have not been able to find what specifies which window
> > manager xdm is going to use. Any suggestions?
>
> Edit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc and make sure it's last lines fire
> up fvwm instead of twm. This is the script uses in the absence of a
> custom ~/.xinitrc in a user's directory.
>
> > I have been starting Xwindows with startx which calls xinit, using
> > /root/.fvwmrc to set up fvwm.
>
> System wide defaults can be set, as you have probably guessed by now, in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwmrc and then you can be sure that the
> fvwm2 started by init level 5 will use those as the defaults.
>
> Ciao.
>
I've had some success today with auto starting my application in fvwm.
My /etc/inittab calls level 5 with
#Run xdm in runlevel 5
x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/X11 xdm -nodaemon
Beings xinit was called in the startx script, I tried changing the xdm
to xinit
in the inittab file. It would not enter xwindows and it was obviously
erring
out somewhere.
After hunting around, I found some information saying to copy the
".initrc" in
the user directory to ".xsession", which is what xdm looks for. This
was
successful. I could then start the app from the InitFunc in the
".fvwmrc" file.
My next step is to find away around the normal log in and have it boot
directly
into the application account. From what I understand, when booting into
run level 5, the login is done with xdm. I see more digging ahead.
Is anybody familiar with how bypassing the login could be accomplished.
Thank you,
Keith Tang
Marathon Electric
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