On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 08:00:30PM -0800, Alan Su wrote: > Daniel Martin at cush wrote (Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:34:52 -0500 ): > |>Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > |> > |>> The window manager should always be last too. Specifically, the last > |>> command should not end in &, but it's most useful if that's the window > |>> manager. You could make it xclock or something, but then you'd > |>> have to kill the clock somehow to logout. > |> > |>Depends - most window managers will send a message to all active X > |>clients when they exit that causes them to shut down. > > I don't think this is right...I've fiddled a lot with window managers, > and I switch them ``mid-flight'' quite a bit. (Since I have an xterm > as the final exec'd command, killing my window manager doesn't end my > x session.) If what you're saying is true, every time I switch window > managers, all my windows would die, effectively ending the session. > Needless to say, this doesn't happen.
The window manager will replace itself with the new one, (using an exec() call, presumably). So the same command in your .xsession/.xinitrc is still running. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
