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From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
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Subject: Re: Workspace launched from remote terminal
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Date: 20 Aug 90 22:47:15 GMT
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In article <67004@sgi.sgi.com>, rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock) writes:
    [ yet another variation on starting WorkSpace from a .login ]
|> 
|>  	if ( ! $?ENVONLY && "`tty`" == "/dev/console" ) then
|>  	     workspace
|>  	endif
|> 

You can start the WorkSpace automatically when you log in on the
console without anything in your .login or your user.ps.  Simply
bring up the System Manager from the systemchest, double click over
the "users" icon, wait for the User's Tool to appear, double click
over the icon representing your login, wait for the user display
and click the "WorkSpace: On" button.

If you don't like graphical interfaces, you can achieve the same
effect with this command:

	% echo on > ~/.workspace/autostart

The WorkSpace will now start automatically every time you login on the
graphics console.

N.B. If you have a personalized user.ps file in which you rewrite
the basicRestartActions array you must ensure that the proc
"autoWorkSpace" is still being called.
--
From the TARDIS of Mark Callow
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"There is much virtue in a window.  It is to a human being as a frame is to
a painting, as a proscenium to a play.  It strongly defines its content."