From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 23 16:10:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA19699 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 16:10:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line15.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA19677 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 16:10:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA00256; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 16:09:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 16:09:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Joel Gwynn cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970819140432.0091b6a0@world.std.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Joel Gwynn wrote: > but I don't have an .xsession in my home directory, so I assume xdm will > use /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession. Is this so? and if so, I haven't > modified this script, and there are no &'s in it. I'm not sure it uses that, it may be looking for /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc instead (this is on XFree86 3.2 tho). It's a good idea to make your own ~/.xsession anyway so you can make local customizations. Usually the last session will be run with 'exec', so in my .xsession I have: xsetroot -solid "#266294" xrdb -merge .Xresources exec fvwm the 'exec fvwm' makes fvwm the blocking process. To log out, I just quit fvwm from it's popup menu. (I'm running an ancient version of fvwm that starts up my xterms for me.) Note that if there are any problems, a ~/.xsession-errors will be created with the stdout/stderr output. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo