On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 11:53:12AM -0800, Charlie Reiman wrote: > > Can anyone please tell me why X shuts down on its own in the following > > situation? I want it to keep running continuously. > > > > I have no window manager installed (don't need one), I've got > > xserver-xfree86 installed, I can use startx fine. So I type startx, X > > comes up, reads my .xsession file: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > > > /path/to/myprogram > > > > sleep 10 > > > > which runs my program for ten seconds and then X shuts down by itself > > (no errors). So the question becomes, how do I keep X running after it > > executes my .xsession file? What is it looking for/to do next? > > This is what's supposed to happen. When your .xsession terminates so does > your X session. So how you prevent it from ending depends on what myprogram > does. If you are starting your program in the background, don't do that. If > you have no choice, you'll need to do something more complicated. If > myprogram must run asynchronously and never terminates, you could do this: > > while true; do sleep 100000; done
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