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From: klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: purpose of x logo?
Message-ID: <2909@laura.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 91 10:10:41 GMT
References: <1991Jan5.203940.19825@unixland.uucp> <4683@awdprime.UUCP>
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In article <4683@awdprime.UUCP>, woan@nowhere (Ronald S. Woan Jr.) writes:
|> bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:
|> Bill> This is probably a pretty dumb question -- but just what is the
|> Bill> purpose of the "Xlogo" program?  I don't see a man page for it
|> Bill> in my Esix docs.
|> 
|> Does everything have to have a use? It is my impression that it's just
|> a sample program that put's an X on the screen...

Well, it has at certain use at least for me. I use it during the startup of
my X Window session. My .xsession file looks like this:

1. start xlogo
2. run xrdb to load resources to the server
3. run xhost
4. start some "real" clients, i. e. clients that will not terminate immediately
5. kill xlogo
6. run the window manager

Without xlogo running the server would reset after the xhost command and
thus forget all resources that have been loaded before with xrdb. This is
even true if the -retain option of xrdb is used. (For reasons too long to
be explained here xhost must be run *after* xrdb.)

This "problem" of the server resetting after the last connection has been
closed I had never experienced before until I got an experimental server
for a certain X terminal. First I thought this were a server bug, but - if
I understood the documentation right - this is just the way things should
work.

Comments?

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