Article 47110 of comp.sys.sun.admin: Path: mri.com!news.aimnet.com!ns1.aplatform.com!viper.inow.com!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!olivea!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!news.sri.ucl.ac.be!news.sri.ucl.ac.be!lheureux From: Olivier L'Heureux Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.cde Subject: Re: X11R6.1, Solaris 2.5, and CDE Date: 14 Jun 1996 12:36:34 GMT Organization: Lab. de Microelectronique - UCL - Belgium Lines: 92 Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <17544@833273618> NNTP-Posting-Host: mozart.dice.ucl.ac.be Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Multipart Fri Jun 14 14:34:51 1996" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: "Perry Wagle"'s message of Mon, 27 May 1996 20:45:33 -0500 (EST) Xref: mri.com comp.sys.sun.admin:47110 comp.unix.cde:197 --Multipart Fri Jun 14 14:34:51 1996 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII In article <17544@833273618> "Perry Wagle" writes: >> I'm running Solaris 2.5 on a bunch of Sun workstations, with the >> latest CDE installed. So the CDE login manager is running. >> Right now, the CDE login manager lets you choose between >> openwindows and common desktop. I'm thinking that I want to add >> X11R6.1 to this list of options. >> Has anyone looked into this yet? Possible? Worth doing? Hidden >> gotchas? Yes, we do it. But normally, CDE `dtlogin' do not restart the X server. So we decided to run X11R6 server, in order to get the same server on all our workstations. Just use the appended "/etc/dt/config/Xservers" file, and restart X. I still do not understand exactely why, but we had then to log in twice, the first one crashed. ( Font problem ? ) We worked around a solution: ask `dtlogin' to restart the server after each session. Copy "/usr/dt/config/Xconfig" in "/etc/dt/config/Xconfig" and append the following lines: | # For X11R6 server. See: `dtlogin (1X)'. OL'H, 29/4/96 | Dtlogin*resetForAuth: True We wanted also a "standard X11R6" session. You need the appended "/usr/dt/config/C/Xresources.d/Xresources.x11r6" (Putting it somewhere under "/etc/dt" should probably be better. ) Just adding new files in place of editing them seems a very good point for CDE, compared to other systems. Just the same difference as between BSD's "/etc/rc.local" and Solaris 2.x's "/etc/rc?.d" files. Great for system administrators. >> We have applications that expect X11R6, and it seems that it would be >> easier to do this than port the applications to openwindows/etc. >> Thanks! Hope this helps, >> -- Perry Wagle, Indiana University Geophysics Olivier L'Heureux ---------------------------------------------------------------------- , , Laboratoire de microelectronique de l'Universite catholique de Louvain e-mail: lheureux@dice.ucl.ac.be B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium MIME/PGP accepted --Multipart Fri Jun 14 14:34:51 1996 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit # # /etc/dt/config/Xservers file # # See file /usr/dt/config/Xservers for comments. # Olivier L'Heureux , 17/4/96 # :0 Local local_uid@console root /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun :0 -nobanner :0 Local local_uid@console nobody /usr/bin/X11/X :0 --Multipart Fri Jun 14 14:34:51 1996 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit !!###################################################################### !! !! Xresources.x11r6 !! !! Configuration file for the X11 R6 alternate desktop resources !! !!###################################################################### !! !! This file used by the Solaris Desktop Login manager Dtlogin*altDtsIncrement: True Dtlogin*altDtName: X11R6 Desktop Dtlogin*altDtKey: /usr/local/X11/ncd/bin/ncdwm Dtlogin*altDtStart: /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession !! Dtlogin*altDtLogo: Dtlogo --Multipart Fri Jun 14 14:34:51 1996--