Re: startup scripts

[Luc Ferran <Luc dot FERRAN-EXTERNAL at gemplus dot com>]

Harold,

I don't want to hurt anybody here. My X level  is certainly the same 
than yours, that's why I've made this proposition to this list.
Now, I give here here way I use hopping that it could be confirmed by 
somebody....

First, here is my startx.bat, inspired from cygwin.bat :
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@echo off

C:
chdir \cygwin\bin

bash --login -i  -c "startx -- -screen 0 1024 768"
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The option to pass to Xwin must be after startx --. The startx script 
mentionned is the one provided by XFree86.

Second, here is my ~/.xinitrc :
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#!/bin/sh
# $Xorg: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:30 cpqbld Exp $

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f $userresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $userresources
fi

if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $usermodmap
fi

#Added by luc to add icewm fonts to the font path
if [ -d $HOME/fonts ]; then
    xset fp+ $HOME/fonts
    xset fp rehash
fi;

# start some nice programs
xwinclip &

xterm -ls -geometry 87x22+2+2 -font 10x20 -name initalXterm -sl 1000 -sb 
-rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black &

xemacs &

exec icewm

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ending with the exec <window manger> ensure the fact that the script is 
locked on the windowmanger. So, when window manger ends, the scripts 
ends with him.

For notice, here is my ~/ .Xressources
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Emacs*font : -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-180-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
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This way seems to gurantee that that nice progams at the end are 
launched when the xserver is ready, so the fonts are available.

Suhaib, Harolds, thanks to your job.

Luc