Re: [Q] Running xterm with sticky from rc.local

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From: David Gibson
Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 00:00

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Grahame M. Kelly - Linux User (gmkelly@zip.com.au) wrote:
: ...

: I have tried to get the xterm to automatically run at startx time by:
: "xterm -geometry 69x2+581+711 -e telnet localhost UPSstats -T UPSstats &"
: without success in my .xinitrc session. File permissions etc are OK.
: And I preferr the fvwm, but this should not make any difference I would
: have thought.

	How is it failing? Are there any error messages. It's kind of hard
to help without this sort of information.

: Also I can't see (in the man pages) how to let the Xserver know I want
: to run this window as Sticky.

	Stickyness is up to the window manager, not the X server.

	You may be better off starting the program from your fvwmrc, rather
than from .xinitrc. I think fvwm2 at least can specify certain types of
window as always sticky. Don't know about fvwm though.

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From: david@brucehall20.anu.edu.au (David Gibson)
Subject: Re: [Q] Running xterm with sticky from rc.local
Date: 1997/05/06
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