On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 09:45:10AM +0200, Goeman Stefan wrote: :Hello, : : :Probably a stupid question. : :I am running WindowMaker under Gnome. :I want to have the wmitime icom appear on my desktop when I log in. :Putting a line like: :exec wmitime in my .xsession file does not work.
so should be: wmtime & what ever you `exec` becomes the session manager (usually your windowmanager) nothing else after this in .xsession is looked at and if you close this process your whole Xsession goes away. the "&" backgrounds the task and returns control to the .xsession script, without this your startup would hang (apps that exit quickly like xsetroot don't need this, but it won't hurt) -Jon
