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Re: X11 Terminal at Startup
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Re: X11 Terminal at Startup


  • Subject: Re: X11 Terminal at Startup
  • From: magenta <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 11:26:20 -0800

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:49:17PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> >>>>> "Mark" == Mark D Wagner, M Ed <email@hidden> writes:
>
>
> Mark> # start some nice programs
>
> Mark> quartz-wm &
>
> No.  The last line of your .xinirc must be:
>
>         exec quartz-wm
>
> It doesn't make any sense to continue X11 if your window manager dies.
> You won't be able to do anything!

Unless you have a terminal running or some other way of starting up a new
one.  (Assuming that the WM crashed, rather than was quit by the user.  Of
course, the server doesn't really have any reasonable way of knowing this,
but that's a different issue...)

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 >RE: X11 Terminal at Startup (From: "Mark D. Wagner, M.Ed." <email@hidden>)
 >Re: X11 Terminal at Startup (From: email@hidden (Randal L. Schwartz))

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