Re: execution of commands on startup

2002-06-30 Thread Jan Schaumann
Scott Furt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jan Schaumann wrote: > > AFAIK, you gotta have a .xinitrc > >(unless you make blackbox your default windowmanager systemwide). > Not if you're using a graphical login manager for X. > To my knowledge, XDM and KDM (the two that i've used) > don't need/use .

Re: execution of commands on startup

2002-06-30 Thread Scott Furt
Jan Schaumann wrote: > Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>How about making a startbb script and then running that from .xinitrc >> >>i want to rid the .xinitrc startup usgae in the first place > > > How are you planning on doing this? AFAIK, you gotta have a .xinitrc > (unless you ma

Re: execution of commands on startup

2002-06-30 Thread Scott Furt
Sam Halliday wrote: >>put everything you want into a file, say ~/bin/startbb. >>Then put "exec ~/bin/startbb" into your .xinitrc - bam, same thing as >>"exec starkde", "exec wmaker", "exec gnome-session" whaterver. > > but that achieves nothing... i dont like putting anything into > an xinitrc

Re: background terminal

2002-06-30 Thread Martin Rowe
On Sunday 30 June 2002 7:16 pm, Kolbe Kegel wrote: > it sounds like he's a little confused about what ctrl-z does... he says > he uses it to send the process to the "background", but that's not what > ctrl-z does at all. ctrl-z just *stops* the process. while stopped, it > can't do anything. it ca

Re: background terminal

2002-06-30 Thread Kolbe Kegel
it sounds like he's a little confused about what ctrl-z does... he says he uses it to send the process to the "background", but that's not what ctrl-z does at all. ctrl-z just *stops* the process. while stopped, it can't do anything. it can't respond to input, create output, or receive events

Re: background terminal

2002-06-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Jun-2002 xOr wrote: > On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 12:52:13PM +0300, Ciprian Popovici wrote: >> I did the following: >> * launch a terminal window >> * from it, launch another (ie. $ aterm) >> * the new terminal windows works ok, the old one is waiting for the >> other to finish in order to resum

Re: background terminal

2002-06-30 Thread xOr
On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 12:52:13PM +0300, Ciprian Popovici wrote: > I did the following: > * launch a terminal window > * from it, launch another (ie. $ aterm) > * the new terminal windows works ok, the old one is waiting for the > other to finish in order to resume > * in the first window I press

Re: background terminal

2002-06-30 Thread Martin Rowe
On Sunday 30 June 2002 10:52 am, Ciprian Popovici wrote: > I did the following: > * launch a terminal window > * from it, launch another (ie. $ aterm) > * the new terminal windows works ok, the old one is waiting for the > other to finish in order to resume > * in the first window I press ctrl-z a

background terminal

2002-06-30 Thread Ciprian Popovici
I did the following: * launch a terminal window * from it, launch another (ie. $ aterm) * the new terminal windows works ok, the old one is waiting for the other to finish in order to resume * in the first window I press ctrl-z and send the second to background * the second window "freezes" and ca