Slackware ships with an .xinitrc configured this way. it's designed to be used as a fallback. your workflow is broken and you don't understand x.
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Daniel Kowalski <kowal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 09/04/2011 02:26 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: >> Þann lau 3.sep 2011 23:42, skrifaði Daniel Kowalski: >>> On 09/03/2011 06:45 PM, hiro wrote: >>> >>>> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 18:21, Daniel Kowalski<kowal...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Have You started X server before running wmii? >>>>> (You shouldn't start wm like that, add it to .xinitrc and use startx) >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Why? >>>> >>>> >>> When I start x server I get xterm window from which I can start wm >>> directly, if window gets killed (accidentaly) wm dies and brings down >>> other apps. (It happened to me once, and I lost some unsaved work) >>> >>> >> Are you sure the X server is starting xterm, and not xinit or another >> wrapper script? > > No. It was some time ago (Slackware 11). As far as I remember I used > xinit to start X, but killing this xterm window was fatal to X server. > > -- > > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments > > -- # Kurt H Maier
