On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 22:39:27 +1100, Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:40, Tim Connors
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> > Fvwm is cool. It takes a fair bit of configuration, but it's
>> > fast, small and absolutely bomb-proof in my experience. And
>> > several of the newer WMs still don't match its features...
>>
>> Bulletproof my oath. One thing you *never* *ever* want to segfault
>> is your window manager. Because if you have been logged in for 60
>> days, there is a lot of state stored on your desktop[1] that you
>> don't want lost when the
> I learnt an interesting trick from a friend at university (Swinburne
> in fact). He had his .xinitrc configured such that the window
> manager would run as a child process, and the process that the X
> server recognised as the window manager was "sleep 1000000000".
here is a better one: I have a Login window instead; my
session exits when I exit the login window (I generally neve use it).
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# Start some shelltools and the window manager
if test -x /usr/bin/fvwm2; then
#fvwm2 -f "FvwmM4 -m4prog /usr/bin/m4 .fvwm2rc" &
/usr/bin/fvwm2 &
elif [ -x /usr/bin/fvwm ]; then /usr/bin/fvwm &
elif [ -x /usr/bin/X11/twm ]; then /usr/bin/X11/twm &
fi
exec uxterm -ut -T login -n login -bg Black -fg LightSteelBlue \
-geometry 80x24+10+93 -ls -xrm "*Desk:1"
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manoj
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.357, it points it at your head as a default. Why do you think Pascal
is taught in school? And which would you rather have when there was a
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