execute commands from xinitrc

[rex]

I was playing with different wm and came across flwm which is based on wm2. As it do not provide any configuration, I was wondering is there a way to execute commands from my xinitrc. Commands such as for setting desktop backgrounds, starting conky and xscreensaver.

I tried

exec /usr/local/bin/feh --bg-scale /usr/home/user/Pictures/wall.jpg
exec /usr/local/bin/conky

[graudeejs]

yes
here's mine (as an example, i use fvwm, and some things needs to be run from .xinitrc)

xsetroot -solid black &
xmodmap ~/.fvwm/appconf/xmodmaprc &
exec fvwm

& is needed to continue executing script....
and last line starts fvwm, there you don't use &

[rex]

hmmmm..........

ya I tried '&' too. but didn't worked, but now its working.
I thought we need to start wm first then need to execute the rest of the commands. Which don't seems to be the case.

Thanks

[TerryP]

it's just a shell script, so you can do basically anything you can in sh.


my own system works off an initialization script, amounting to psetbg& pidgin& gkrellm& ... blackbox