Chapter 12. The pekwm start file

The ~/.pekwm/start file is the simplest of all of pekwm's config files. It's a simple shell script that's run on pekwm startup. Therefore, to run, it needs to be set executable with chmod +x ~/.pekwm/start.

Why anyone would use start rather than just use their ~/.xinitrc file? Well, the answer is, the start file is executed during the pekwm initialization phase - therefore, it gets re-executed when you issue a pekwm 'restart'.

Here's an example pekwm start file. Be careful to place long running applications to the background, or you will seem stuck when trying to start pekwm.

#!/bin/sh

xmessage 'hi. pekwm started.' &
some_command &