Icewm background program in .xinitrc causing X crash
Hey Guys.
Well.... iceWM just plain kicks Ass dont it ??? epecially with iceCrack2 theme. ANYWAY, from the documentaion, ive found that you have to execute a program called icewmbg to display the background image. which works Fine when issued from Xterm after bootup. (oohhh, i should mention my default runlevel is runlevel 3. and i have entered the command 'exec startx' in th last line of my ~/.bash_profile) to load icewm i have the command exec icewm in my ~/.xinitrc file but when i add 'exec icewmbg' to ~/.xinitrc X will not load. it starts to load, shows the nVidia Logo, then at the point the WM would load, im left in runlevel 3 with the message "waiting for x to shutdown" ive tried exec icewm exec icewmbg exec icewmbg exec icewm exec icewm & exec icewmbg & exec icewmbg & exec icewm & but all have the same result. so where exactly am i meant to issue the icewmbg command ??? |
exec icewmbg &
exec icewm Should work. |
That's interesting.
Try adding a sleep command between the execution of icewm and icewmbg. sleep 5 -Shade |
yeah, fixed it g00$e was right.
i was treating xinitrc as a config file not a script. it seems X is designed to shutdown when the xinitrc script has finished executing. so adding the thread '&' to all but the main WM at the end causes all binary's to execute, and closes X when icewm finishes execution. thanX ;) |
Nice to know!
Thanks for posting the resolution, too many people don't. -Shade |
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