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From: abstine@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Arthur Stine)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Digital-logo in DECwindows
Message-ID: <1990Apr13.033544.28743@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 90 03:35:44 GMT
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Sender: abstine@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Arthur Stine)
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From article <9998@shlump.nac.dec.com>, by fisher@skylab.enet.dec.com:
> 
>     $ DEFINE/SYSTEM/EXEC  DECW$LOGIN_BACKGROUND  dev:[dir]file.COM
> 
> Then in file.com, run a program that displays what you want.  You don't
> have to set up the display...it will be passed in automatically via
> SYS$OUTPUT.  (FYI, if there is no DECW$DISPLAY, XOpenDisplay looks
> in SYS$OUTPUT for a Display spec.)
> 
> Burns Fisher
> VMS DECwindows And Display PostScript
> fisher@decwin.dec.com
when i do this, the background gets set, but there is a process
called LOGO which is in a tight COM loop, no longer running the
program which set the background (xsetroot), but in DCL... and it 
doesn't go away...

what am i doing wrong?


-- 
Art Stine
Sr Network Engineer
Clarkson U
ABStine@CLVMS.Clarkson.Edu