Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!brtph3!brchh104!brchs1!bnr.ca!rice.edu!sun-spots-request From: gbarker@mph.sm.ucl.ac.uk (Dr Gareth J. Barker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: OpenWindows without NeWS ? Keywords: Windows Message-ID: <1860@brchh104.bnr.ca> Date: 15 Mar 91 22:44:00 GMT Sender: news@brchh104.bnr.ca Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 15 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Original-Date: Wed, 27 Feb 1991 10:55:11 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 44, message 11 X-Note: Submissions: sun-spots@rice.edu, Admin: sun-spots-request@rice.edu I've heard a couple of people say that you can run the X11 part of the OpenWindows server without the NeWS bit by seting a shell variable called something like X11ONLY. I've tried various likely names with no success - can someone tell the exact name required and whether it can just be set in .login or .cshrc, or needs to be in the openwin startup script. Thanks. Gareth J. Barker, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK. JANET : gbarker@uk.ac.ucl.sm.mph INTERNET : gbarker@mph.sm.ucl.ac.uk BITNET : gbarker%uk.ac.ucl.sm.mph@ukacrl.bitnet