[CLUE-Tech] Enlightenment

[Ed Hill]

Hi Kurt,

The "~/.Xclients" file doesn't exist unless you create it.  With Red Hat
distros, the startx command (I generally login from a text terminal but
this may also work from a graphical login) program will execute a bit of
shell code (see [1] below) from your /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file.  So
what this code does is, if you have a /home/your_name/.Xclients file, it
will execute it and otherwise it will use the system default file.

Many Unix commands have such a configuration structure.  That is, many
programs have a system-wide default resource (or configuration) file
that can, in part or whole, be overridden by a resource file in the
user's home directory.

hth,
Ed

===

 [1] Exerpt from /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc:


if [ -f $HOME/.Xclients ]; then
    exec $HOME/.Xclients
elif [ -f /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients ]; then
    exec /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
else
       # failsafe settings.  Although we should never get here
       # (we provide fallbacks in Xclients as well) it can't hurt.
       xclock -geometry 100x100-5+5 &
       xterm -geometry 80x50-50+150 &
       if [ -x /usr/bin/netscape -a -f /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html ];
then
               netscape /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html &
       fi
       if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2 ]; then
               exec fvwm2
       else
               exec twm
       fi
fi




On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 17:32, Kurt Sturm wrote:
> Ummm.... Hey Ed.... Don't mean to sound like a newbie but..... where
> might I find this almighty Xclients file??
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 16:43, Ed Hill wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 16:10, Kurt Sturm wrote:
> > > Thanks xclock is a tad primitive but gets the job done, one cannot ask
> > > for to much more that that, right?
> > 
> > 
> > You can get a number of cool little Gnome-panel-applets with E if you
> > run the Gnome-panel.  And you *don't* have to run all of Gnome!  This is
> > the setup that I use (just Enlightenment with the Gnome panel).
> > 
> > To do it, put the following in your ~/.Xclients file:
> > 
> > # run E with the Gnome panel...
> >   /usr/bin/panel >& /dev/null &
> >   enlightenment
> > 
> > 
> > hth,
> > Ed
> > 
> > 
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