Re: [e-users] Problem with .xsession/.xinitrc

[Hugh T. <hr...@jh...>]

I copied it from the Xsession file, didn't really think about what it
does.

On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 15:44, Robert G. Werner wrote:

> Hugh Taylor wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> >>> included the file below (.xsession and .xinitrc are the same). Any
> >>> ideas? Oh, I'm using RedHat 7.3.
> >>> 
> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> #!/bin/bash
> >>> # I hope this works
> >>> 
> >>> # redirect errors to a file in user's home directory if we can
> >>> errfile="$HOME/.xsession-errors"
> >>> if cp /dev/null "$errfile" 2> /dev/null ; then
> >>>     chmod 600 "$errfile"
> >>>     exec > "$errfile" 2>&1
> >>> else
> >>>     errfile=`mktemp -q /tmp/xses-$USER.XXXXXX`
> >>>     if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
> >>>         exec > "$errfile" 2>&1
> >>>     fi
> >>> fi
> >>> 
> >>> exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver &
> >>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> 
> >>> -- 
> >>> Hugh Taylor <//hr...@jh... <mailto:hr...@jh...>>/
> >>
> > -- 
> > Hugh Taylor <hr...@jh... <mailto:hr...@jh...>>
> > 
> > 
> I'm using .xsession to start xscreensaver and run xmodmap etc.  It 
> needs to be executable (chmod o+x .xscreensaver).  This works from GDM 
> for me on both RedHat 7.3 and RH 8.0.
> 
> What is the purpose of the exec in your tests for the existence of a 
> previous error file?

-- 
Hugh Taylor <hr...@jh...>