Re: [SLUG] starting a program automatically in X

From: Brian Coyle (brianc@magicnet.net)
Date: Thu Nov 22 2001 - 19:29:35 EST


Justin Keyes wrote:

> I got bbkeys and I use it with blackbox. I put
> bbkeys -noqt
> in my .xinitrc to get it to run automatically. It does just that--but then blackbox won't come
> up! bbkeys and X are running, but no window manager!

Did you remember to end the bbkeys line with an '&'??

        bbkeys -noqt &
        {more stuff} &
        exec /path/to/window/manager

Only the last line should not have the '&'.

HTH!

-- 
"We choose to go to the moon, and do the other things...
 Not because they are easy, but because they are hard." -JFK



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