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From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Starting DECwindows from the command line
Keywords: Bag /etc/ttys
Message-ID: <6234@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 27 Aug 90 18:54:51 GMT
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Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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	Is there a way to start DECwindows from the command line?  I do
not want to use /etc/ttys for starting dxsession, because our users want
to choose between DECwindows and X11R4 when they log in (or even switch
between them WHILE logged in).

	On a DECstation 3100 running Ultrix 4.0, I tried:

		/usr/bin/X11/xinit -- /usr/bin/Xmfb

with an .xinitrc file containing the line "/usr/bin/dxsession".  This
brought up DECwindows just fine, but also the following very scary-looking
console error messages:

	Fixed up unaligned data access for pid NNNN (getcons) at pc 0xNNNNN
	{The above repeated 4 times.}
	sh: Memory fault

(NNNN is some hexadecimal number.)

In addition, dxsession has crashed once or twice when I started it up
this way.

	Any other suggestions?  Any DEC-sanctioned way of doing this?

                                                        Dan

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