David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:25:12 -0500:
> Most Linux users launch Pan via bash? Not directly from KDE or Gnome or > some other desktop? Or that their desktop environment's resources are > set/limited/controlled from a parent shell process? I'm assuming the latter. As I said, it will depend on how you start X. If you use startx from a shell, then obviously X and related programs should inherit from the shell (they do here). Anyone using a dm (x/g/k/ whatever) will of course login from that, perhaps without ever seeing a shell. However, depending on how the distribution is setup, it may still source and inherit from the shell initialization files. Actually, I think most are setup to do so, thus presenting an appropriately customized environment to everything running in X. But I don't think it's mandatory, and some may not. That said, I haven't used a DM in years, so what they do these days I have only cursory knowledge of. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
