From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 12 18:34:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wolf.cian.net (tnt-1-117.easynet.co.uk [195.40.206.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9928114F58 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 18:34:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from c.raven@ukonline.co.uk) Received: from ukonline.co.uk (chris@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wolf.cian.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA14232; Thu, 13 May 1999 02:36:57 +0100 Message-ID: <373A2CB9.730BBA48@ukonline.co.uk> Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 02:36:57 +0100 From: gurab Organization: CIAN X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brian D. McGrew" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X-Windows. xinit, .xinitrc References: <000d01be9cde$6c590a40$0264a8c0@kaffesoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian D. McGrew wrote: > > Thanks for the insights on the X-Console ... I was having the same problem. > As soon as I added the recommended line to /etc/fdtab, I was up and running > with an X-Console! Thanks ... > > My question is this. I have written this bitchen .xinitrc file. So, after > I do a command line login, I can then type "xinit", and get into the > X-Server and it will process my ~/.xinitrc just fine. > > Then someon told me that I could star X automaticly at boot. This is > working fine, but when I login, it doesn't process my ~/.xinitrc. Do I need > to rename this file to something else, or is there something that I'm > missing about the way X works? You need to make a .xsession file. Just copy your .xinitrc file to .xsession and then make the .xsession file executable - $cd (home directory) $cp .xinitrc .xsession $chmod 775 .xsession > > Also, I'm using FVWM v2.2, with a 2x2 virtual desktop. How can I tell my > programs (ie. xterm, netscape etc.) what desktop to come up on? I've tried > the conventional "/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -xrm "*Page:2"", and also "*Desk:2"; > but neither seem to work. Any suggestions? > > Thanks for the quick lesson in X :) > > -Brian > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message