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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xinit-1.3.4-1 (Major overhaul of X session handling)
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 13:35:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5481B4A6.8010009@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+2x6-+chAGSokz9JRpz_FSoKq+OCQNzzyFq1gbkEqAJM-EWVA@mail.gmail.com>

On 29/11/2014 20:19, Nem W Schlecht wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> On 11/29/2014 3:05 AM, Nem W Schlecht wrote:
>>> * User-defined ~/.startxwinrc files must now be executable, the
>>> final command therein must be run in the foreground, and that
>>> command's exiting will end the X session, just like with startx
>>> and ~/.xinitrc or ~/.Xclients.
>>>
>>> In most UNIX systems, this last command would be the window manager.
>>> I'm not liking fbpanel (although I will give it a try) and I don't
>>> like using an XTerm as my "last" command, since I often close/reopen
>>> them all when making changes to my .bashrc/.bash_profile.
>>>
>>> Are there any suggestions from the list for some *other* program that
>>> won't use any resources that I can use as my final foreground command?
>>>    I don't want it to do anything, just not let X11 exit.
 >
 > I just want X11 to *not*
 > launch fbpanel and to *not* quit.  For now, I've settled on just
 > calling 'sleep' for 10 years.

If you previously had an empty ~/.startxwinrc, I'd suggest putting 
'sleep infinity' or even 'exec sleep infinity' into it.

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-05 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-28  3:04 Yaakov Selkowitz
2014-11-28  8:45 ` Marco Atzeri
2014-11-28 11:54   ` Jon TURNEY
2014-11-28 22:53 ` Ken Brown
2014-11-30  4:02   ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2014-11-30  6:36     ` Nem W Schlecht
2014-11-30  7:45       ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2014-11-30 13:57         ` Ken Brown
2014-12-01 18:15           ` Jim Reisert AD1C
2014-12-01 18:16             ` Jim Reisert AD1C
2014-11-29  2:05 ` Nem W Schlecht
2014-11-29  2:46   ` Marco Atzeri
2014-11-29 20:19     ` Nem W Schlecht
2014-12-05 13:35       ` Jon TURNEY [this message]
2014-12-05 14:51         ` Nem W Schlecht
2014-11-30  0:18 Angelo Graziosi

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