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From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Removing DECwindows
Keywords: DEC DECwindows Ultrix DS5000 X11R4
Message-ID: <6266@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 29 Aug 90 21:02:38 GMT
References: <6756@milton.u.washington.edu> <279@uninet.vbo.dec.com>
Reply-To: barrett@jhunix.UUCP (Dan Barrett)
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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In article <279@uninet.vbo.dec.com> wendl@munich.enet.dec.com (uli) writes:
>If you get a solution to start DECwindows (or OSF/Motif) simply out of
>.login, but not automatically, please let me know.

	First, comment out the ":0" in /etc/ttys and uncomment the "console"
line, as described in another posting, to stop DECwindows from coming
up at boot time.

	Then put the following into a shell script (say, "startdx"):

/usr/bin/X11/xinit /usr/bin/dxsession :0 -- /usr/bin/X :0
exit 0

Then to start DECwindows from a .login file or command line, just invoke
this shell script:

	$ startdx

THE FULL PATH NAMES ARE IMPORTANT -- this is the "xinit" provided by DEC
unsupported, and DEC's DECwindows X server.  On our machine, /usr/bin/X
is a symbolic link to /usr/bin/Xmfb (monochrome DS3100).

                                                        Dan

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