For what it's worth, I found that the underlying issue had something to do with keyboard focus (the call to setActiveWindow() was dying) - running mythwelcome under an xterm avoids the issue, i.e. "xterm -e mythwelcome".
<br><br>HTH<br><br>Cheers,<br>Russell.<br><br><br>> Hi all,<br>> <br>> I would just like to confirm that the problem I was having was due to<br>> evilwm doing strange things. I switched to fvwm2 and everything works!
<br>> <br>> /Fredrik<br>> <br>> On 3/19/06, Fredrik Karlsson <dargosch (at) <a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > Hmm, ok... is this an evliwm problem then? How could it be?<br>> >
<br>> > /Fredrik<br>> ><br>> > On 3/19/06, Max Barry <mythtv (at) <a href="http://maxbarry.com">maxbarry.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > > Fredrik wrote:<br>> > > > I tried mythwelcome and I love the idea. Now, for some reason, I
<br>> > > > cannot start mythwelcome automatically. I run evilwm, and when I try<br>> > > > to start an xterm with ctrl-enter after the mythwelcome program has<br>> > > > started, I get nothing. Loggin in from a remote host via ssh confirms
<br>> > > > that the program mythwelcome is running.<br>> > > ...<br>> > > > Am I the ony one having this problem<br>> > ><br>> > > I have the exact same problem! I'm also running evilwm and my ~/.xinitrc
<br>> > > looks similar to yours.<br>> > ><br>> > > Max.<br>> > ><br>> > ><br>> > ><br>> > ><br>> > --<br>> > My Gentoo + PVR-350 + IVTV + MythTV blog is on
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