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From: spirit@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: running X from init
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Date: 13 Dec 89 10:39:23 GMT
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>>>
>>>I have been trying, without any luck, to have X started up by init, as
>>>indicated in the Xserver manual page.  I am running on an HP 9000/340
>>>workstation, using version 6.5.2 of HPUX.
>>>
>>>If anyone out there has been able to pull this off, please let me know
>>>via email.  I will post the results.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>John Kelso

Yes John,

I have tried to get this information before.  I want to leave our
workstation running an X login window.  (Sounds reasonable to me.)
If you find out a way to do this, let me know!

Here is a work around I have used.  It is kind of ugly, but you 
might want to try it.

1)  Start X and leave it running in the background.  As far as a window
manager, the user will have to start that themselves.  I am not going
to let them "create window" as root or anybody else for that matter.

2)  Use the following line in your init, along with these two scripts.
You could probably two separate scripts.  (extra credit!)  Talk about
brute force.

Init Line:
X1:2:respawn:env PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11 /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/x_login

x_login script:
xterm -display uiatma:0.0 -geometry =80x40+10+20 %160x160 -bw 5 -132 -j -rw -ls  -sb -si -sk -sl 500 -fn hp8.10x20 -e /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/x_relogin

x_relogin script:
exec login

The one drawback to this method is that "login" times out every 60
seconds, but I don't know how much of a load that really is.

If it worked the way the manual says it does, then the question
would be moot.

spirit@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu