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From: smarks@eng.sun.COM (Stuart Marks)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: olwm *exiting* problems
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Date: 30 Jan 91 18:45:31 GMT
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Nagesh_Pabbisetty.Henr801C@xerox.com writes:

    	1. When I run openwin, then olwm menu has both these entries. However,
    	   using  "Exit WM..." logs me out of the system even without asking
    	   me for confirmation. When I select "Exit..." menu item, it asks me
    	   for confirmation. However, both exit me from the server!
    	   Is there anything I am doing incorrectly?

More details... it's not olwm that shuts down the server, it's another
agent.  In the case of OpenWindows, this agent is xinit.  When you start
up the system, xinit runs a the .xinitrc script and waits for it to
finish.  When .xinitrc finishes, xinit shuts down the server.  The default
.xinitrc waits for olwm to exit.  So, when olwm exits, .xinitrc exits, and
then xinit kills the server.

To change this behavior, edit .xinitrc so that it waits for something
other than olwm.  For example, the last lines of my .xinitrc are

	olwm &
	exec xterm -C -g 80x8-0+0

which run olwm and then a console xterm.  This way, the server stays up
until I exit the console xterm.
    
    	2. If I run the MIT server, and then start up olwm, its menu does not
    	   show an entry for "Exit WM..." at all! Should I have another default
    	   file for using olwm with the MIT server? MIT server with olwm is
    	   my preferred configuration (:-).

This is odd.  Do you have a different version of olwm in your MIT
installation?  Older versions of olwm read a different menu customization
file.  Make sure you have the latest version of olwm.  The olwm in
OpenWindows version 2 and the olwm in the XView source release (on expo in
contrib/xview2.tar.Z) are virtually identical and are the latest publically
available versions.  You should be able to run the the olwm from
OpenWindows with the MIT server.

s'marks

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