From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15239 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2014 13:35:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 15227 invoked by uid 89); 5 Dec 2014 13:35:44 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: out3-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out3-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.27) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 13:35:38 +0000 Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.internal [10.202.2.42]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FC5220848 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 08:35:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 05 Dec 2014 08:35:36 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (unknown [86.139.177.174]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id E2EA9C0027F for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 08:35:35 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <5481B4A6.8010009@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 13:35:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xinit-1.3.4-1 (Major overhaul of X session handling) References: <5479336D.3060704@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2014-12/txt/msg00012.txt.bz2 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/