Re: FVWM: fvwm2 on SPARC Solaris 2.6

From: Neil Bird <neil.bird_at_rrds.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:58:12 +0000

rgultr_at_mauigateway.com wrote:
> I've just installed fvwm2 on my SPARC20. I have a problem with
> system log messages popping up on the desktop which causes everything to
> scroll up. I've redirected standard error to /dev/null when starting
> fvwm but this only stops some of the messages. Other things like failed
> remote logins into my workstation and error messages from applications
> like Netscape also appear. I've even edited the syslog.conf file to
> output everything from /dev/console /dev/null but that didn't seem to
> work.

  Try having 'xterm -C' as the first thing to start up.

  I always do, in my .xinitrc:

# Start fvwm2
sleep 10 & pid=$!
fvwm2 &

.. other stuff

wait $pid

if [ -x $HOME/usr/fvwm2/login ]; then
    $HOME/usr/fvwm2/login # Custom FVWM2 tools
else
    $OPENWINHOME/lib/openwin-init # Default OpenWindows tools
fi


  ... and in the login script, kick off X tools that I only want run once
at login time (like netscape/xterms, etc. (as opposed to fvwm's Init
function which runs things every restart). 'xterm -C' is the first thing
it does, and that'll catch your console stuff. Pass in a nice small
geometry & iconise the thing if you don't care about it much.

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Received on Mon Mar 15 1999 - 04:54:00 GMT

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