I've been trying to hack my xinitrc file to start a few programs when
open blackbox, my fave window manager.
Mandrake have written in a bunch of scripts which call various other
scripts. The startx man page says:
NOTE: The startx script supplied with the X11 distribution
is a sample designed more as a base for customization than
as a finished product. Site administrators are urged to
customize it for their site. And to update this manual
page when they do!
But Mandrake haven't updated it. Bad Mandrake. No biscuit.
Anyway, I wanted to start some applications like 'kbiff', and to run
kpanel and kfm (I have installed blackbox with kde support and a patch
to run various K applets in the Slit) so, first, I wrote a .xinitrc file
in my home directory:
kbiff
knetload
kfm
kpanel
and reran startx. This didn't work - blackbox failed to load.
Second try: I added the same lines to my /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file,
just before
if [ -x $HOME/.Xclients ]; then
exec $HOME/.Xclients
elif [ -x /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients ]; then
exec /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
This didn't work either. So I erased that and tried adding the same
commands to my etc/Xclients file, just before:
exec $PREFERRED
where $PREFERRED == blackbox
Still no dice.
So I removed everything. I went back to the way it was. But now startx
takes about 2 minutes to start my window manager, and gives an error
message:
xauth: timeout locking authority file home/dash2/.Xauthority
What have I done and how can I fix it?
thanks in advance.
Dave Hugh-Jones
