On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, John Ostrowick wrote:

> a simple shell script containing a few programs i want to run. why?

I shall be more specific:  please show us (or me) the contents of your
.xinitrc.  Be forewarned that when the .xinitrc script ends, so does your
X session.  A common error is to background all of the programs run from
.xinitrc...

--scott