Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!ames!sgi!msc@canth.SGI.COM From: msc@canth.SGI.COM (Mark Callow) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: Fun with forkunix Summary: our answer Message-ID: <22363@sgi.SGI.COM> Date: 22 Nov 88 01:36:48 GMT References: <3168@natmlab.dms.oz> Sender: daemon@sgi.SGI.COM Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 23 In article <3168@natmlab.dms.oz>, marka@natmlab.dms.oz (Mark Andrews) writes: > I would not call this a bug as such. Starting programs such as > psterm, emacs which expect to be able to talk to the server > before you actually start the server are bound to cause trouble. > "user.ps" is designed to TAILOR the SERVER. > > NeWS does not provided as it comes any way to layout a desktop > reliably. The way we got around this problem was to define > another configuration file "desktop.ps" and cause it to be > executed AFTER the server is started. We did this by adding one > line to $NEWSHOME/lib/NeWS/init.ps right at the end. > > (desktop.ps) LoadFile pop We created an array of procs called RestartActions which your user.ps can fill with actions. Init.ps executes these procs after the server is running. -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@sgi.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl,sun}!sgi!msc "There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play. It strongly defines its content."