On Monday 12 October 2009 23:02:19 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 22:52, Lisi <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] > > > Yes. But I omitted to mention that because I forgot, that putting an & > > after both startx and Idesk results in Idesk running correctly - but only > > if and when I open a terminal: and Idesk then closes when I shut the > > terminal down. > > Why are you using startx in a .Xsession? If you're running the X > server by entering startx in the console, then having startx in > .Xsession will launch a second X server, no? So, regardless of how you > start up your X, the .Xsession file should not contain startx.
I don't run the xserver by entering startx in the console. I have it starting and running automatically via an entry in ~/.bash_profile. > > All entries in your .Xsession or similar must end with &, so they'll > run in the background, except the last one. This last one should be > your window manager. For instance, mine's this: > > exec xscreensaver -no-splash & > exec /usr/bin/fluxbox > > Yours should be: > > exec idesk & > exec /path/to/otherapp & > exec /usr/bin/icewm > > I've tried idesk before and gave up for some reason, but i think i had > it working... I have it working well - but only from the command lime, by entering the idesk command. And even then, on one of the computers, as a child of the terminal, so that X shuts down if I close the terminal; and when it does start, it only starts up if Icewm is running But I want it to run automatically at startup. Thanks for your help. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
