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Re: [PLUG] Upgrading the Libranet
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On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 13:10, Mental wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 12:44, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
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> > I don't think you're right about the window manager problem because
> > of that; when you just run X, there is no windo manager.
>
> startx doesnt exec X as the controling process. It startx up X, then
> execs all the crud in your .xinitrc or .xsession or the system wide
> stuff. Thats the difference.
I did "startx" (the script), and not X (the binary). I'll try and
remember in future, as a troubleshooting step, to do the binary, and not
just the script.
> Anyways, when you just type X, it starts up
> X and nothing else. Otherwise the controling prcess is the last thing
> you exec from a script. When that process exits, X exits.
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