Hi all:
I tried to make the setting apply globally by editing the
file /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession file by putting the sames two lines:
#####
metacity --sm-disable
exec firefox
#####
But it did not work. It gives me this error:
"Cannot start the session due to some internal error."
In my case, i would like any user to login to my system and can only use
firefox. Could someone please help me to fix it?
Regards,
Khem
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 11:49 +0700, khemera lin wrote:
I've wanted to this too but could not succeed. Thanks for the
great tip.
May I further ask: is there an easy way to apply it to all users on the
system? I've tried putting the same thing in /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession
but it did not work.
Thanks,
Khem
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 10:34 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 24Jan2007 20:41, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak(a)rogers.com> wrote:
> | On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 10:20 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> | > Get rid of the "&".
> | >
> | > The duration of the .xsession script is the duration of your login.
> | > Normally you would kick off a few things in the background with
"&"
> | > (terminals, browsers, whatever) and finally start a window manager
> | > _without_ an "&". In this way the script is waiting for the
window
> | > manager - quitting the window manager logs you out.
> | >
> | > So you want to start a single app _instead_ of a window manager.
> |
> | Thank - that's the explanation I was looking for. I should have
> | realized that backgrounding the terminal wasn't what I wanted to do.
> |
> | Here's what I ended up doing:
> |
> | exec /usr/bin/metacity --sm-disable &
> | exec /usr/bin/gnome-terminal --window --full-screen
> |
> | I think I'm doing that right. I'm not sure if I should have two exec
> | lines. It is working though: when I exit the gnome-terminal, I get
> | logged out, which is exactly what I wanted.
>
> Good.
>
> You don't need two exec lines. You don't even need one:-)
>
> Using "exec" _replaces" the shell running the script with the
program
> being called. Normally the called program is a child of the shell. For
> the last program in a script it can be a tiny performance win to exec
> it, since the shell is no longer needed.
>
> Using "exec" with a "&" is harmless but also useless.
>
> So I would write:
>
> metacity --sm-disable &
> exec gnome-terminal --window --full-screen
>
> I normally try to avoid full pathnames to executables - things will just
> break if the system layout is changed. Do you type full paths at your
> shell prompt? Rarely I would hope:-) Scripts are no different.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Cameron Simpson <cs(a)zip.com.au> DoD#743
>
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