Re: X11 Terminal at Startup
Re: X11 Terminal at Startup
- Subject: Re: X11 Terminal at Startup
- From: email@hidden (Randal L. Schwartz)
- Date: 05 Feb 2003 19:47:59 -0800
>>>>> "Randy" == Randy Ford <email@hidden> writes:
Randy> I've checked it: X11.app doesn't immediately exit with an .xinit
Randy> containing only backgrounded jobs. I guess Apple has done this
Randy> because they provide the X11.app menu bar that allows one to exit the
Randy> X server. Normally X servers don't provide any way of exiting other
Randy> than exiting xinitrc (either the default one or ~/.xinitrc). It may
Randy> also have been when they changed this that they eliminated the system
Randy> xinitrc file.
Randy> So, it seems that everybody (including me) that has said that you must
Randy> not background the last program in in .xinitrc was assuming that
Randy> X11.app treated .xinitrc like all of the other X servers I know. (I
Randy> wonder if this is specified in the X11R6.2 specs.)
Ooh. Evil. And different enough that people (like me) will be
getting confused. bad apple. bad apple. Hint: it'd be OK *IF YOU
HAD DOCUMENTED IT*. {sigh}
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