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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 02:21:31PM -0800, David Moberg wrote:

> Lee Forrest wrote:
>
> > I am having problems with it. It won't see any aliases (and
> > I've tried _everything_) unless I run '. etc/profile' in each
> > window.
>
> These are rxvt windows, right? What command are you using to
> launch them? When you start rxvts from the menu in the default
> BL3 X setup, they are launched with the -ls option (to start
> the shells as login shells). If you start your rxvts just by
> executing 'rxvt', the shell is started as a non-login shell,
> and those do Not automatically import /etc/profile.

Oops. You nailed it. I checked my ~/.ratpoisonrc and
there's a typo. I put -sl rather than -ls, and then
copied that line twice.

Thanks much, David.

About the swm vs. ratpoison RAM thing. Here's free and
ps with 3 windows up for swm:

              total         used         free       shared      buffers
  Mem:       126584        16992       109592            0          436
 Swap:       128484            0       128484
Total:       255068        16992       238076
-------------------------------------------------------
  PID  Uid     VmSize Stat Command
    1 root        152 S   init       
    2 root            SW  [keventd]
    3 root            SWN [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
    4 root            SW  [kswapd]
    5 root            SW  [bdflush]
    6 root            SW  [kupdated]
   22 root        212 S   -sh 
   23 root         96 S   /sbin/getty 38400 tty2 
   27 root        156 S   /bin/sh /usr/X11R6/bin/startx 
   30 root        472 S   xinit -- /usr/X11/bin/Xvesa -screen 640x4
   31 root       1232 R   /usr/X11/bin/Xvesa :0 -screen 640x480 -3b
   32 root        156 S   /bin/sh /root/.xinitrc 
   35 root        628 S   swm 
   36 root        656 S   /usr/X11R6/bin/rxvt -ls -g 68X30 -title A
   37 root        656 S   /usr/X11R6/bin/rxvt -ls -g 68X30 -title B
   38 root        656 S   /usr/X11R6/bin/rxvt -ls -g 68X30 -title C
   39 root        292 S   -sh 
   40 root        292 S   -sh 
   41 root        288 S   -sh 
  432 root       1092 S   mutt -y -F /root/.muttrc-gmail 
  433 root        156 S   sh -c /usr/bin/nvi '/tmp/mutt-BasicLinux-
  434 root        696 S   /usr/bin/nvi /tmp/mutt-BasicLinux-432-1 
  437 root        156 S   sh -c ps 
  438 root        152 R   ps 

And, when I reboot, this will be with ratpoison and three
windows up and mutt and nvi like above:

              total         used         free       shared      buffers
  Mem:       126584         8424       118160            0          232
 Swap:       128484            0       128484
Total:       255068         8424       246644

------------------------------------------------

  PID  Uid     VmSize Stat Command
    1 root        152 S   init       
    2 root            SW  [keventd]
    3 root            SWN [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
    4 root            SW  [kswapd]
    5 root            SW  [bdflush]
    6 root            SW  [kupdated]
   22 root        212 S   -sh 
   23 root         96 S   /sbin/getty 38400 tty2 
   24 root        156 S   /bin/sh /usr/X11R6/bin/startx 
   27 root        472 S   xinit -- /usr/X11/bin/Xvesa -screen 640x4
   28 root       1180 S   /usr/X11/bin/Xvesa :0 -screen 640x480 -3b
   29 root        704 S   /usr/bin/ratpoison 
   30 root        156 S   sh -c rxvt -ls -title "A" -geometry 109X4
   31 root        156 S   sh -c rxvt -ls -title "B" -geometry 109X4
   32 root        156 S   sh -c rxvt -ls -title "C" -geometry 109X4
   33 root        668 S   rxvt -ls -title A -geometry 109X45 -bg wh
   34 root        680 S   rxvt -ls -title B -geometry 109X45 -bg wh
   35 root        668 S   rxvt -ls -title C -geometry 109X45 -bg wh
   36 root        208 S   -sh 
   37 root        212 S   -sh 
   38 root        208 S   -sh 
   40 root       1096 S   mutt -y -F /root/.muttrc-gmail 
   41 root        156 S   sh -c /usr/bin/nvi '/tmp/mutt-BasicLinux-
   42 root        684 S   /usr/bin/nvi /tmp/mutt-BasicLinux-40-1 
   45 root        156 S   sh -c ps 
   46 root        152 R   ps 

(If you want, I'll send you the output of lsof.)

And everything's okay with ratpoison. Excellent job making
this relatively new x-app work with BL, David. It's the best
window manager for X I've used, and I've tried a lot of
the smaller ones.

Great name, isn't it? Ratpoison.

Problem with it is that I _like_ rats. At least the woodrats, the
wild ones. Don't have any experience with city rats.

[delete]

Lee

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