Hello. Most of the time I work in GNOME, but sometimes all I need to do can be done quicker in text environment, with, for example, only one graphical web-browser running on the default, seventh virtual console. This could be a real time- and battery-saver when I'm working on a laptop.
I think there's a way of starting (startx-ing?) X with only one application, and after some googling I found "The Basic X Window System Architecture"[1], which suggests to `startx xterm` or to put xterm as the only thing in the ~/.xinit file. Unfortunately, creating ~/.xinit with the xterm line simply starts my GNOME/Metacity as usual, while `startx xterm` (or `startx mozilla-firefox` for that matter) end up in dropping me back to the commandline and displaying /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm: bad command line option "mozilla-firefox" (plus xterm usage help). What should I try next? I have the x-window-manager alternative set to /usr/bin/metacity, but setting it to /usr/X11R6/bin/twm doesn't change anything (and I don't think it should, because, as I understand it, I don't want to run *any* window manager - I want just a single, fullscreen X application). [1] http://togaware.com/linux/survivor/Basic_X.shtml Cheers, -- Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) -- .--- http://shot.pl/ --- http://shot.pl/hovercraft/ --- -- - | To any other nation the loss of a Nelson would have been irreparable, | but in the British Fleet off Cádiz every captain was a Nelson. | -- Admiral Pierre Charles de Villeneuve `----- ---- --- -- - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
