From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 29 03:06:20 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA23715 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 May 1995 03:06:20 -0700 Received: from late5.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (late5.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de [131.188.254.132]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA23570 for ; Mon, 29 May 1995 03:02:56 -0700 Received: (from eilts@localhost) by late5.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA07682; Mon, 29 May 1995 11:55:40 +0200 From: Hinrich Eilts Message-Id: <199505290955.LAA07682@late5.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de> Subject: Re: Questions about Xfree 3.1 To: cgola@ix.netcom.com (Carl Gola) Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 11:55:40 +0200 (MESZ) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199505290438.VAA24040@ix2.ix.netcom.com> from "Carl Gola" at May 28, 95 09:38:03 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1069 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 1) Can I save the way the desktop looks when I exit X-windows. > When I exit and return again the desktop is always in the original > configuration. You can write a shellscript which launch every part of your desktop in your favorite manner. This script is started by xinit (look at manpage for xinit) and its default-name is ".xinirc". (if you use xdm, name its name ".session"). Every program in this script has to be launchend in background, but the last programm not. > > 2) What is the proper way to exit X-windows? I have used the exit > option in the pulldown menu but that changes the color to black and > white and I have to go to the login menu and type exit to leave. In above script, let your window-manager be the last programm. If you exit it by menu, the script will be finished. Hinrich -- Hinrich Eilts Uni: eilts@late.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de | G i b D O S | Priv.: eilts@tor.dialin.rrze.uni-erlangen.de | k e i n e | http://late5.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de/user/eilts.html | C h a n c e ! |