Re: Correct way to start Gnome?

["Tim Lewis" <tlewis digaudio com>]

Gentlemen:
If you want your panel 'logout' button to shutdown X, it must be the last
entry in your .xinitrc (sans ampersand).  If you want your window manager to
close your X session, then it should appear last.  It is fine to put your
init commands on their own lines with trailing ampersands.  As far as I
know, there is no way to make it such that either panel or WM close will
shut down your X session.  This is due to the fact that to bring your X
session down, you have to close the last process started in your .xinitrc,
i.e. the last line without an ampersand.  All other process with trailing
ampersands are started in the background.

I hope I haven't stated the totally obvious.
Regards,

Tim Lewis

-----Original Message-----
From: Allan Third <allan@grelb.src.gla.ac.uk>
To: Scott Tyson <tysons@deepwell.com>
Cc: gnome-list@gnome.org <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Date: Wednesday, February 17, 1999 2:01 AM
Subject: Re: Correct way to start Gnome?


>Hi,
>
>> This is how I start Windowmaker (0.50.2).  This is the contents of my=20
>> .xinitrc file
>>
>> panel & background-properties-init &=20
>> screensaver-properties-init &
>> mouse-properties-init &=20
>> exec /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker
>>
>> I get windowmaker and the gnome panel.  Is there a different/better=20
>> way?
>
>I've tried that too, except I had panel and background-properties on
>different lines, but with that, I don't think the Gnome logout button works
>- you have to exit using the Windowmaker exit button. I'd like to be able
to
>use either. I think this is possible with Enlightenment, but it's hard to
>tell, because it segfaults every time I try to quit, and I don't really
want
>to use it anyway.
>
>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>>
>> On 2/16/99, 4:18:13 PM, Allan Third <allan@grelb.src.gla.ac.uk> wrote
>> regarding Correct way to start Gnome?:
>> > I use WindowMaker in conjunction with
>> > Gnome, and I can't find any way of running them together so that when
>> > one exits, another exits, and vice versa. Does anyone know how to do
>> > this?
>>
>> > I'm using WindowMaker 0.51, and Gnome 0.99.7, started with
>>
>> > /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker &
>> > exec /opt/gnome/bin/gnome-session
>>
>> > or
>>
>> > exec /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker & /opt/gnome/bin/gnome-session
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Allan Third (allan@mindless.com)
>
>"It's raining popcorn. Hallelujah!"
>
>
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