RH & X Question

[ddm at pizzashack.org (Derek D. Martin)]

On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 01:12:10PM -0400, Derek D. Martin wrote:
>   # don't run startx in the background
>   startx
>   exit
> 
> This way, while the user is in X, the .profile stops executing,
> waiting for startx to exit.  As soon as they log out of their X
> session, the .profile will continue and call the shell exit, which
> should log them out.

Another way to accomplish this would be to replace the startx call
with an exec:

  exec startx

This will cause the login shell to be completely replaced by startx,
which will also have the effect of loging the user out when startx
exits.

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