Re: .xinitrc not fully executing

Steve Ki-Won Lee (kiwon@ugrad.cs.ualberta.ca)
Fri, 29 May 1998 23:58:52 -0600 (MDT) 

Hey John,

You might wanna have your /usr/share/afterstep/autoexec start your
.xinitrc instead of your G/L/A/.workspace_state.  Have fun!

With Best,

Steve

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On Sat, 30 May 1998, Scott Stone wrote:

> On Fri, 29 May 1998, 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?
> 
> shouldn't only the afterstep line have 'exec' in front of it?
> 
> > 
> > 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
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> > of my enemies!"
> >         --Sam of Sam & Max
> > 
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