> On Tuesday 13 October 2009 10:43:21 Tim Clewlow wrote: >> You can rearrange the order in which things are started in your >> .xsession file, ie you dont have to start the window manager last. > [snip] >> Basically, when the script finishes, X will close - so dont let >> the >> script finish - thats what the long sleeping loop at the end is >> for. >> I'm guessing your .xsession should look something like: >> >> #!/bin/sh >> xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults & >> icewm & >> sleep 1 >> <other apps> & >> idesk & >> >> while [ 1 ] ; do >> sleep 1000d >> done >> >> >> The line 'sleep 1' is intended to be a little delay to give icewm >> time to start up before attempting to run idesk. It may not >> actually >> be necessary, or it may be too small a delay, it all depends on >> how >> idesk determines if icewm is running, ie it may look for a lock >> file >> created really quickly by icewm, or it may look for a process that >> may take some time to appear. > > Thanks for this and for the lucid explanation. Sadly, it didn't > work any > better than the others. Differently, but not better. IceWM started > to open, > then x crashed out. I also tried various changes to see if they > would help. > E.g., as you suggested I changed the sleep time. But I also > commented out > and commented back in the xrdb line. It made no difference which I > did. > > So I am left with the best being to put startx in ~/.bash_profile > and start > idesk from the command line - but that is not acceptable. > > I am beginning to think that either it is simply not doable, or it > is doable - > but not by me. :-( > > Lisi > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > >
I installed icewm and idesk, created a directory ~/.idesktop and then started X with .xsession containing the following: #!/bin/sh xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults & icewm & idesk & while [ 1 ] ; do sleep 1000d done Idesk seems to start up fine, ie I had icewm running and an icon at the top left that looks kind of like a house with the text 'Idesk' written underneath. -- The code that never executes at all is the fastest. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
