On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 06:28:58PM -0500, ktb wrote: :Try - :exec xscreensaver & :kent
NO DON"T DO IT! This will stop processing the file and make the screensaver the last thing that executes (ie no window manager) and if you close the screensaver you Xwindows session will exit. Only "exec" a windowmanager, unless you really want to do some thing odd. Sorry to shout, but I saw someone "exec xsetroot" which ofcourse promptly closed the Xsession after changing the background color, and they had a hell of a time figuring out "why X was crashing" :On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 01:27:08AM +0200, Jeroen Valcke wrote: :> xscreensaver & :> However it doesn't work. What's wrong. Adding to the .xinitrc file is :> correct isn't? For some reason I've been unable to fathom if you start X from the console with "startx" it looks at one config file if you're using xdm (or gdm, wdm, what ever) to get a graphic login it looks at a different one. These two files are .xinitrc and .xsession, I've symlinked mine (ln -s .xinitrc .xsession) and forgotten which method uses which file. -Jon