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 -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 i686 GNU/Linux 20:34:58 up 3 days, 5:30, 3 users, load average: 0.32, 0.62, 0.49
