MvH wrote:
.xinitrc is the default file started by xinit or startx - maybe your distro has it configured elseways - you should checkout in the distro's docs I'm afraid.
I first experimented a bit with different window managers, and thanks to the terrific documentation of Fluxbox I got some insight in the whole process. It seems that ~/.xsession is the right place for this. Also, I discovered that I had to choose session type 'Default' in kdm (which I use for autologon) to make X (or kdm) actually read ~/.xsession. This also makes switching to the KDE desktop very easy, by just selecting it from the menu at the graphical login of kdm. I always assumed that the 'Default' session was the last used session, but this is actually saved in ~/.dmrc, and only used to mark the last used session with '(default)' in the kdm session type menu.
my .xinitrc would be quite plain:
xterm -fg green -bg black -e pd& exec xterm
mine now just reads: pd zoom.pd
and since pd runs forever and is the only app I need running, I don't need exec or &. Very elegant, and very fast startup without the overhead of a window manager. :)
imagine some -geometry settings to make sure things don't overlap...
Even this is not needed in my case, since I open a single pdp_xv window, with a fullscreen message, so it just sits on top and covers the entire screen.
Thanks for the suggestion not to use any window manager :)
yves,
how far is support for directfb underway? then we could even do without X...
nada. did we say we would support it? for now, the hot spot in the theora integration ( sending and receiving streams ).
i still think some window manager ( like fluxbox ) support an absolute positioning like 'pos 0 0' will really be in (0,0).
saludos, sevy