Re: X11 & Panther - worth the upgrade?
Re: X11 & Panther - worth the upgrade?
- Subject: Re: X11 & Panther - worth the upgrade?
- From: Eugene Lee <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:51:40 -0600
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 07:46:03AM -0500, Mike Summers wrote:
: On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:27:14PM +0000, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
: > Ar an 29z la de mm 10, scrmobh Mike Summers :
: > >
: > > I upgraded recenlty and haven't had installation or cut/paste
: > > problems, and all my X11 apps work fine. Note that I use the
: > > following .xinitrc file for seamless (so far) copy/paste between
: > > X11 and Aqua:
: > >
: > > #!/bin/sh
: > > /usr/local/bin/rxvt -geometry 100x30+30+30 -title rxvt-1 -bg ivory -fn times -sl 2000 &
: > > exec /usr/X11R6/bin/quartz-wm --only-proxy &
: >
: > That 'exec' is superflous, and will probably break under other shells.
: >
: > > exec /sw/bin/icewm
:
: Maybe I'm wrong, but I believe the "exec" is actually is Apple's
: recommended way to copy and paste when using other window managers
: (http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1232.html).
Ummm, no. "exec" replaces the shell with another command. Since the
.xinitrc file is just a Bourne shell script, the last statement says to
replace /bin/sh with the /sw/bin/icewm.
--
Eugene Lee
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