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From: phil@inetg1.Arco.Com (Phil Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: xdm & OW fixes
Keywords: xdm, OW, working.
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.225019.24350@Arco.COM>
Date: 20 Feb 91 22:50:19 GMT
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In article <2456@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>, arutherf@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Andrew Rutherford) writes:

> A suggested fix (Thanks, Pierre) is that when you want to get a cmdtool, you
>   use /usr/etc/sedsid -b cmdtool. I haven't been able to test this yet - the
>   machines in here at work are 4.0.3 machines without OW so I can't really
>   check. Would anyone who tries this tell me yay or nay as to if it works on
>   their setup?

I have gotten the satndard xdm set up to work by putting a 'wrapper' around
cmdtool and shelltool.  I make a directory /usr/openwin/bin/xview/tools and
move cmdtool and shelltool into it.  I then created a replacement cmdtool
shell script like this:

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/etc/setsid -b /usr/openwin/bin/xview/tools/cmdtool "$@"

and all works well.  Again, Thanks to Pierre!  This is on the newest and
latest SUN-OS 4.1.1 on SparkStation 2s.

Right now I'm working on an enhancement to xdm so that a user can choose which
server to run ie:  MIT X11R4 or xnews.  We have found quite a few applications
(most of which are home grown Motif based) that will not display on xnews.

If anyone has beat me to the punch, I'd like to hear about it.

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