Re: No Terminal Opening
Re: No Terminal Opening
- Subject: Re: No Terminal Opening
- From: "Tom Scogland" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:38:32 -0500
That's true, the first one usually does have that happen, but it's a
great deal less likely when one opens X11.app before running an X11
application. In fact that's why I started doing it that way instead
of assigning a script app to a quicksilver action like I did
previously.
-Tom
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Harald Hanche-Olsen
<email@hidden> wrote:
> + "Tom Scogland" <email@hidden>:
>
>> So, why not just open x11.app and then open an xterm in it? That's
>> what I do every day, no problems. As to the login shell pux
>> "xterm*loginShell: true" in your .Xresources file and, assuming the
>> "xrdb merge" in the xinit files doesn't hang on you indefinitely, you
>> should get a login shell in each of your xterms.
>
> Except possibly for the first one; there is a race condition here,
> which is usually "won" by the first X application, in the sense that
> it will initialize itself before the xinit script has the chance to
> read the .Xresources file. Very annoying, and I am not sure what can
> be done about it.
>
> Another way to get a login shell is to run xterm -ls from Terminal.
>
> - Harald
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