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Date:      Sun, 20 Jun 1999 11:56:25 +1000 (EST)
From:      Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au>
To:        Bart Trzynadlowski <trzy@powernet.net>
Cc:        "J.M. Paden" <jmpaden@mnsinc.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: x configuration files
Message-ID:  <Pine.OS2.3.95.990620115340.129A-100000@CENTRAL>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906190928140.344-100000@Brzuszek>

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On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Bart Trzynadlowski wrote:

> file but now X goes to the point where it displays that gray-ish weaving
> background with an X cursor and just quits. The only message is something
> about XKEYBOARD keymap compiler and that errors here are not fatal to the
> X server. Yet it shuts down anyway. My xinitrc is included below. I
> changed nothing except for what is below the "# start some nice programs"
> line. Everything else was originally in the xinitrc file. Thanks for the
> help!

{...}

> wmaker &
         ^
xinitrc needs to wait on something, and that is nearly always the window
manager.  drop the " &" and it should work.

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