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From: rudy@chukran.austin.ibm.com (Rudy Chukran)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: How to make window manager appears on Xstation
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Date: 3 Jun 91 21:37:53 GMT
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> When I login to remote host (at the initial login window on a Xstation
> given by a prompt that says, "Enter hostname (devlgw): " and then have
> my .profile invoke xinit script, the window manager will fire up on the
> remotehost rather than on my Xstation. Can someone please help me what I
> have to do to make the window manager appears on my Xstation instead of
> the remotehost when I perform a remote login on the Xstation's login
> window? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I havent seen this behaviour, but I suspect the DISPLAY variable either
isnt getting set in the first place (login should do this) or it is getting
overridden.  Id suggest some debugging echoes in your .profile to see
what the value of DISPLAY is.

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