On Jun 26, 2011, at 18:20, Dave Ray wrote:
On Jun 26, 2011, at 17:21, Dave Ray wrote:
On Sun Jun 26 15:41:09 PDT 2011, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: mkdir ~/.xinitrc.d echo "USERWM=/usr/X11/bin/twm" > ~/.xinitrc.d/00-twm.sh chmod 755 ~/.xinitrc.d/00-twm.sh
Thanks, that makes it clear.
When I tried it before, I was trying to exec the wm in the script (like in .xinitrc), which wasn't working. Instead I should be setting USERWM in the script. Correct?
You can also exec it if you'd rather do that... mkdir ~/.xinitrc.d echo "exec /usr/X11/bin/twm" > ~/.xinitrc.d/99-twm.sh chmod 755 ~/.xinitrc.d/99-twm.sh
I guess my follow-up question is:
If I need to invoke another process before the wm starts, how is that done?
Just put it in your xinitrc.d script or in a different one that would execute before yours.
In the "wrong" .xinitrc method, that pre-process just comes on a line before the wm command.
Yeah, that will work here... these are just bourne shell scripts...
I could do: USERWM="/usr/bin/somethingelse && /usr/X11/bin/twm". Is there a better way?
No, that is definitely not what you should do.