From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3fb00f7a252623d8def0855209d03e61@quintile.net> From: "Steve Simon" Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:20:59 +0100 To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: <10b109140809090058q6c7b7b31u32f39d71644c779@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] fortune in login window Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0e0f8c4c-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 The startup script is envoked by your profile ($home/lib/profile) where it starts rio (I call mine startup, you seem to call yours riostartup, its personal choice really) here is the relevant line in mine: exec rio -s -i startup and here is my $home/bin/rc/startup #!/bin/rc auth/fgui & if(~ $service terminal) window -r 0 0 200 120 stats -lmei $sysname $cpu if not window -r 0 0 200 120 stats -lmei window -r 201 0 845 120 faces -i window -r 1159 0 1279 120 clock window -r 95 212 921 734 logwin The last line above starts logwin which is a seperate script which opens my first terminal window and runs fortune etc in it, here is $home/bin/rc/logwin #!/bin/rc fortune calendar -y news echo exec rc -i -Steve