On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:32:05AM +0000, Chris wrote:
> I am trying to get a new wm (scrotwm) and added it to .xinitrc but
> it's not working. Every time I press ALT-CRTL-Backspace and log back
> again, I get landed on fvwm. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.
> The same .xinitrc works on another box running bash shell for a normal
> user.

First, the obvious . . . is scrotwm installed?

> 
> My shell is ksh, user chris is a normal user (user's group is "user").
> The .xinitrc file is owned by chris:user
> and has permission:  -rw-r--r--
> 
> Here's my .xinitrc file:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> /usr/local/bin/scrotwm

montagueneal# whereis scrotwm                                                   
                
/usr/X11R6/bin/scrotwm

or try just exec scrotwm

> 
> if [ "$SSH_AGENT_PID" ]; then
>         ssh-add -D < /dev/null
>         eval `ssh-agent -s -k`
> fi
> xidle -delay 3 -sw -program "/usr/X11R6/bin/xlock -mode bat" -timeout 5
> 
> --
> 
> I have also tried /usr/local/bin/scrotwm & and exec
> /usr/local/bin/scrotwm & but no luck.
> 
> Thanks.

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