I've wanted to this too but could not succeed. Thanks for the great tip. May I further ask: is there an easy way to apply it to all users on the system? I've tried putting the same thing in /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession but it did not work. Thanks, Khem On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 10:34 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 24Jan2007 20:41, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > | On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 10:20 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > | > Get rid of the "&". > | > > | > The duration of the .xsession script is the duration of your login. > | > Normally you would kick off a few things in the background with "&" > | > (terminals, browsers, whatever) and finally start a window manager > | > _without_ an "&". In this way the script is waiting for the window > | > manager - quitting the window manager logs you out. > | > > | > So you want to start a single app _instead_ of a window manager. > | > | Thank - that's the explanation I was looking for. I should have > | realized that backgrounding the terminal wasn't what I wanted to do. > | > | Here's what I ended up doing: > | > | exec /usr/bin/metacity --sm-disable & > | exec /usr/bin/gnome-terminal --window --full-screen > | > | I think I'm doing that right. I'm not sure if I should have two exec > | lines. It is working though: when I exit the gnome-terminal, I get > | logged out, which is exactly what I wanted. > > Good. > > You don't need two exec lines. You don't even need one:-) > > Using "exec" _replaces" the shell running the script with the program > being called. Normally the called program is a child of the shell. For > the last program in a script it can be a tiny performance win to exec > it, since the shell is no longer needed. > > Using "exec" with a "&" is harmless but also useless. > > So I would write: > > metacity --sm-disable & > exec gnome-terminal --window --full-screen > > I normally try to avoid full pathnames to executables - things will just > break if the system layout is changed. Do you type full paths at your > shell prompt? Rarely I would hope:-) Scripts are no different. > > Cheers, > -- > Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 > http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ >
