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From: brooks@vette.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: R3 xterm and controlling tty's and awm
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Date: 9 Dec 88 18:20:23 GMT
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In article <8812091324.AA02733@work8.icase.edu> tom@WORK8.ICASE.EDU (Tom Crockett) writes:
>
>  xinit awm -e $HOME/.xinitrc
>
>Awm -e always seems to crash in this situation.  Has anyone else seen this
>behavior?  Any thoughts on what might be causing it?  We are running R3 +
>fixes1-2 + Purdue-speedups under SunOS 3.5 on Sun 3/50s.
I had a lot of arcanity in trying to use xinit nicely under X11R3, we just
switched from X10R4 where xinit was the way to fly.  After much twiddling
I finally got xdm to work for our installation and as the manual says, it
is the way to fly.  You should use xdm as it presents a much more convenient
interface for X, if you don't want to be switching between window systems.
You exit X using the f.exit function of awm.

As examples, here are my configuration files

$HOME/.xsession:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/X11/xrdb -load $HOME/.Xdefaults
rm $HOME/.sh_history
xset m 10 5
xset s 600
exec /usr/local/bin/X11/awm -e $HOME/.awmexec

$HOME/.awmexec:
xclock -geometry 100x100+1050+20 &
xbiff -geometry 100x100+950+20 &
/usr/local/bin/X11/xterm -sb -sl 512 -sk -ls -geometry 120x40+20+200 -n VETTE -fn 9x15 &
# My .kshrc catches TERM=vs100, changes it to xterm, and turns on msgs or biff.
/usr/local/bin/X11/xterm -C -sb -sl 512 -sk -ls -tn vs100 -geometry 80x10+1+20 -title "Console $USER" &

You have to install the system xdm configration files in LIBDIR/xdm by hand,
see the subdirectory of the xdm source directory for examples.  And for the
last trick, add the following line
/usr/local/bin/X11/xdm -server ":0 local /usr/bin/X11/Xsun :0"
to the end of your /etc/rc file just before exit 0.

You will find that using xdm and the -e option of awm to be real
convenient.