>
>
> What exactly does "puked on me" mean? It's impossible to help without
> proper descriptions of behavior.
My apologies. What happens is that fvwm starts to load, shows xterms I start up, but the "background" which is supposed to be black just stays with the CDE login and never starts up correctly.
>
> I suspect the problem is that .xinitrc is a traditional Bourne shell
> script. The >& token is a C shell (bletch ptooey) feature... although
> some Bourne-based shells, like bash, allow it too.
>
> The equivalent to the above, in sh syntax, is:
>
> .../fvwm2 > fvwm-errors 2>&1
Ok. Ill try it and Ill see what happens.
Thanks.
Dave
>
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