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sindi keesan wrote:
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> 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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