From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 12 23:46: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-11.mail.demon.net (finch-post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B6F615448 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 23:45:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-11.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10hpFi-0007o6-0B; Thu, 13 May 1999 06:45:54 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from support-3.uk.radan.com (support-3 [193.114.228.220]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id HAA02013; Thu, 13 May 1999 07:45:18 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com by support-3.uk.radan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id HAA02008; Thu, 13 May 1999 07:45:16 +0100 Message-ID: <373A74B1.E8F1FB51@uk.radan.com> Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 07:44:01 +0100 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB 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? > Are you logging in from a command line ``login: '' prompt or using the xdm GUI login? If it is the latter then you need to copy ~/.xinitrc to ~/.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? > Can't help you here I'm afraid, I don't use fvwm. > 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 -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message