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.
Now I have to try that with Internet Explorer via wine. I don't want to use IE, but a security camera system requires IE in order to access the web GUI. The ultimate goal is to have a dedicated user that when logged in, starts IE, and when closed, logs the user out.
Thanks again for the reply. I really appreciate it!
Regards,
Ranbir