Re: .xinitrc not fully executing

Michael Barnes (mibarnes@vaview7.vavu.vt.edu)
Fri, 29 May 1998 20:10:08 -0400 

The problem is that 'exec' exits your shell, only put exec as the last
element in your .xinitrc.

Mike


On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 04:51:07PM -0700, John Gruenenfelder wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> In my .xinitrc I have this:
> xhost athene
> xhost aquarius
> exec xiterm -geometry 80x24+0+22 -sl 300 -fg #00FF00 -bg #000000 +vb &
> exec xiterm -geometry 80x24+148+229 -sl 300 -fg #00FF00 -bg #000000 +vb &
> exec xautolock -time 3 -corners +00- -cornerdelay 3 -locker 'xlock -nolock
> -mode random' &
> exec afterstep
> 
> The problem is that not all of the lines are working.  Both xhost commands
> run, and xautolock loads, and afterstep starts too.  But the two xiterms just
> will not load.  I can type xiterm from an xiterm once AS has started and
> another will load just fine.  It is in my path and it works just fine, but it
> doesn't load out of my .xinitrc.  I use this at home as well, but it works
> fine there and it is the same version (1.4.5.55N).  Any ideas?
> 
> Also, how can I get bold colors in xiterm?  My normal colors are bright-green
> on black, but normally the bold colors are done with the bright ANSI colors.
> Therefore, bright-green stuff looks like my ordinary text.  When compiling
> xiterm I commented out the line to USE_BRIGHTCOLOR or something like that.
> But it seems to behave just the same.  Must I explicitly load a bold font for
> it to use?  I would like it to do the overstrike like xterm does and that line
> is commented so it should work.  Does that have to be explicitly turned on?
> 
> Many thanks!
> 
> 
> --John Gruenenfelder
> Elrond, Duke of URL     http://www.azstarnet.com/~elrond
> elrond@azstarnet.com    johng@aquarius.as.arizona.edu
> "This is the most fun I've had without being drenched in the blood
> of my enemies!"
>         --Sam of Sam & Max
> 
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