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From: gildea@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Stephen Gildea)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Odd WM problem...something simple which I am forgetting
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Date: 8 Mar 91 19:08:01 GMT
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    This is the problem:  When I log on, the WM will not execute the
    demo.  However, if I kill the WM and restart it, the demos work
    just fine from mouse menus.

My guess is that your programs depend on some part of your environment
that isn't set up yet when you fork your initial WM.  When the WM
forks your demo, it doesn't have the environment either.  But when you
start a new WM, you do so from an xterm which contains your complete
environment, so everything works.

Check the order you do things in your .xsession script (or whatever
startup script you use).

 < Stephen
   MIT X Consortium