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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Copying with 2-button mouse in Xvesa without Xconfig
  • Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:04:55 +1300

sindi keesan wrote:
>
> I have this one laptop where Xconfig set to 4 colors
> does not work

Xconfig is not the issue. Xconfig simply holds the
parameters that are given to Xvesa. Putting 640x480x2
into Xconfig is exactly the same as executing Xvesa
with -screen 640x480x2

> so I have to get into X some other way than startx.

No you don't.

> Xvesa -screen 640x480x2 -2button &rxvt -e icewm

You are starting two processes with that:
----------------------------------
Xvesa -screen 640x480x2 -2button &
rxvt -e icewm
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The first (Xvesa) is run in the background. The
second is rxvt, which is completely unnecessary.
The purpose of rxvt -e is to run non-X binaries.
icewm runs quite happily without rxvt.

> To load opera I had to add another &rxvt -e opera

No you didn't.

> I set up my own Xvesa with icewm and left out the menu
> (minimalist).

What? The icewm menu is only a few lines. How does
leaving them out make icewm minimalist?

> I don't want to go into opera every time I use X

Then put opera in the icewm menu and start it only
when you want.

> I can install the icewm menu

There's no menu to install. It's just a short file.
The ability to use that file is already built into
icewm.

> In order to understand things better.

In order to understand things better, you should start
X with startx (or xinit) and do your configuration in
~/.xinitrc

> I don't have the menu on my BL2 desktop with Xvesa.

Do you have icewm on that desktop? Don't confuse the
BL3 menu utility with the icewm built-in menu.

> to start Xvesa and icewm and Opera and have a usable
> rxvt onscreen in X when you exit opera.

You are confused about what is going on. The & does
not mean "and". It means "run the preceeding process
in the background". The reason rxvt does not stay
open is because your use of the -e parameter starts
rxvt as a wrapper for the subsequent executable --
when that executable terminates, the wrapper terminates.

Cheers,
Steven

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