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Re: Basic question 1 - Traffic


On 27.09.2005 15:07 UK Time, Fergus Daly wrote:
startx -- -screen 0 1200 900 # your startup


Does this give you a xterm terminal and a xterm prompt, at which you
start your Strathclyde stuff?

Yes, it gives me an X environment (with a console and 2 X terminals) as specified in my .xinitrc file




Does the quite mode you mentioned fit in here somewhere?


I'm sorry, I don't use startx, with or without arguments. But I do
notice that if at the bash prompt I try


startx # no arguments

As an aside, if I use startx without arguments the process kind of crashes (i.e. no X environment is set up). I'm not sure, but I suspect this is because I have a 2-monitor setup, and the system perhaps gets a little confused without arguments.



then this generates a lot of gunk amongst which I find the line


XWin was started ...

Same here.



and at the end of which I have one xterm window (not the 3 that your .xinitrc creates: do you need 3, or indeed any?)

Not really, but it's what I'm kind of used to :-)



So my rather unhelpful response isn't (I'm afraid) "tweak your existing startup protocol to include the switch -nolisten local" because I don't know how to do this, I'm sorry. But you could try

	bash # to start bash
	$ run XWin -nolisten local # at the bash prompt
	$ ps # to check you've got a running XWin
	$ xterm -display localhost:0.0 # to get your xterm terminal with
prompt, if needed
	$ {whatever, to start the Strathclyde stuff}

and see whether you end up with what you are familiar with AND it's
quiet?

I might try that, thanks, although on the other hand it isn't really such a big issue because the 'ZoneAlarm noise level' is rather moderate really - I was just curious about what is going on.



Sorry, probably not very helpful. (IKWWFMATWID, meaning "I know what works for me and that's what I do", pronounced I Don't Give A Toss About Anybody Else. Not in fact true, but it might as well be ...)

I know it's not true, otherwise you wouldn't have responded in the first place :-)


Cheers

Herbert Eppel
--
www.HETranslation.co.uk


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