[Xmonad] initialization when running xmonad using xnest

[Michael Vanier]

That works, or more specifically, it works if I do:

sudo startx ~/.xinitrc.Xnest -- /usr/bin/Xnest :1 -name "xmonad" +kb -ac -geometry 1152x768

Thanks for all the help, guys!

Mike

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> 
> On Aug 3, 2007, at 17:09 , Michael Vanier wrote:
> 
>> Huh, I think I was asking the wrong question then.  I don't really 
>> want to do all the things that are done in my .xinitrc file.  I 
>> noticed, though, that (for instance) my .Xresources are ignored inside 
>> the xnested xmonad, so I have to do
> 
> Correct thing to do is have a ~/.xinitrc.Xnest and do:
> 
> startx ~/.xinitrc.Xnest -- Xnest :1
> 
> (the full pathname to .xinitrc is important, otherwise it runs your 
> regular .xinitrc and passes the stuff before the -- as arguments.  on 
> the other hand, you could use that to customize your .xinitrc...)
> 
> Hm, except that XFree86 broke startx at one point such that it always 
> passed them as arguments.  I *think* xorg fixed that, but you should 
> test to make sure startx does the right thing in that case.  Or possibly 
> use xinit directly instead of startx.   (startx is just a wrapper around 
> xinit that invokes a standard system-wide xinitrc and/or xserverrc as 
> needed.  Since you're specifying both the xinitrc and an X server, you 
> can safely use xinit directly.)
> 
> --brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery at kf8nh.com
> system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery at ece.cmu.edu
> electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH
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