XWin won't run xterm on start

Eliot Moss moss@cs.umass.edu
Mon Feb 22 02:43:00 GMT 2016


On 2/21/2016 8:59 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 2/21/2016 6:21 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
>> On 2/21/2016 4:28 PM, Jaakov Jaakov wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why not do:
>>>
>>>> xterm ... &
>>>
>>>> /etc/X11/xinit/startxwinrc
>>
>> Do this in your personal .startxwinrc file ...
>
> Won't this lead to an infinite recursion?  (See https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-02/msg00325.html)

Ah, perhaps.  There may be ways to catch that, but it may be easier for the
OP to copy the startxwinrc file's contents.  Not the best for responding to
future changes ...

EM

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