From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 24 22:26:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gramsc1.dyndns.org (h00609774e769.ne.mediaone.net [24.91.224.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07C2637B416 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 22:26:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from gramsc1.dyndns.org (mrlongz@localhost.net [127.0.0.1]) by gramsc1.dyndns.org (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id fAP6PtLC018290; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 01:25:56 -0500 (EST)?g (envelope-from resopmok@gramsc1.dyndns.org)œ Received: from localhost (resopmok@localhost) by gramsc1.dyndns.org (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id fAP6Pt06018287; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 01:25:55 -0500 (EST)?g (envelope-from resopmok@gramsc1.dyndns.org) Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 01:25:54 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Thomas To: Eric Lam Cc: parv , Subject: RE: X Windows, Blackbox, and VNC In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG echo "exec BlackBox" > ~/.xinitrc that should work. -chris On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Eric Lam wrote: > Well, my problem is fixing up probalby 20 users and potential new users. > It's not a big of a deal writing up a script, but it would be nice and a > bonus if there was a central config file. thanks for your help though. > > eric > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of parv > Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 10:21 PM > To: Eric Lam > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: X Windows, Blackbox, and VNC > > > in message , > wrote Eric Lam thusly... > > > ... > > You know how VNC creates a default ~/.vnc/xstartup? Is there a way to > > automically specify xstartup to use blackbox, instead of the default > windows > > manager? Its rather annoying to configure ~/.vnc/xstartup so that it > starts > > up blackbox instead of that twm. > > > > a really crude & quick way is to create symlink from > twm to blackbox. > > twm is more or less guaranteed to be on a X Window System, afaik. so > vnc does the safest thing. > > sure, it's not automagic, but why is it so hard to edit a line? > ...unless, you are talking about changes to hundreds of users' > files. but even in that case, a short perl program would take > care of that too. > > - parv > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message