On Fri, 16 May 1997, Tan Wee Yeh wrote: > > twm & > [background processes snipped] > > xterm -title "Measun10" -geometry 80x40+30+200 -ls > > Just a little comment (for discussion). Normally, I > will prefer to put twm (or whatever windows manager) > as the last process (let the others be background). > This causes the window manager, rather than other > processes, to be the anchor process, so that X kicks > the user off when the windows manager quits. I wonder > if this is a good practice.
I've gotten bitten enough times (having just set up a friend's machine and not fully tested it yet) with the window manager as the final process but didn't yet have my mouse working. I'd often have to forcibly kill X, which I tend not to like to do. If I'm using my normal fvwm, I can (once I remember the default keys)drive my cursor by keyboard and exit an xterm, but there isn't much option for killing the window manager by keyboard. For the curious, here's a (slightly trimmed) version of my .xinitrc: #! /bin/sh # # first things first. # # xhost - allows x clients onto this server. xhost coral reef templinux # Backgrounded jobs process in parallel. # # xclock - self explanatory xclock -bg black -fg red -hd white -update 1 -geometry 96x96+3+809 & # xbiff - visual "new mail". xbiff -update 3 -volume 0 -bg black -fg blue -geometry 96x96+110+809 & # xsysinfo - kernel activity/usage indicator xsysinfo -geometry 206x100+0-0 & # fvwm - window manager fvwm & xearth -proj merc & # xautolock...automatically xlocks when unused for ten minutes xautolock -locker "xlock -mode maze" & # xcon - symlink to xterm (allows for different behavior in .fvwmrc xcon -geometry 80x6+216-0 -T "daemon.log" -n "daemon.log" -e tail -f /var/log/daemon.log & # NON BACKGROUNDED: # this script (and therefore xinit) finishes when # this process ends. # xcon - symlink to xterm (allows for different behavior in .fvwmrc xcon -C -geometry 80x6+711-0 ---end of included script--- Pete -- Peter J. Templin, Jr. Client Services Analyst Computer & Communication Services tel: (717) 524-1590 Bucknell University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
