[632] in athena10
Re: set skip_foo; window managers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Tue Dec 2 14:19:17 2008
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:18:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Kevin Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: athena10@mit.edu
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On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Kevin Chen wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Kevin Chen wrote:
>
>>> skip_initial_xterm: Is this really a big deal?
>>
>> I use this because I use xterm instead of gnome-terminal. But if we don't
>> spawn a terminal window on startup (as is standard on Ubuntu), then it's
>> irrelevant.
>
> Upon a closer reading of the dotfiles, it appears that I can set $terminal,
> so it seems like it doesn't matter.
And upon an even closer reading, terminal gets set in $initdir/xsession,
overriding any previously existing variable, so my most recent e-mail was
incorrect, and the variable is relevant. Sorry for all the mail.
--
Kevin Chen
http://www.sneswhiz.com/
