Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!crdgw1!montnaro From: montnaro@spyder.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: (none) Message-ID: Date: 12 Jan 90 12:01:02 GMT References: <9001112135.AA01749.5@marlin.aet_austin> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: (Skip Montanaro) Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development, Schenectady, NY Lines: 29 In-reply-to: olson@aaet.csc.ti.com's message of 12 Jan 90 03:47:52 GMT I wasn't able to get X11ONLY mode working properly with X11/NeWS using the technique you described. I finally had a slight flash of insight one day (a rare occurrence :-) and decided to use the "standard" startup files from the MIT distribution, ~/.xinitrc, ~/.xserverrc, and /usr/bin/X11startx. All I did was make .xserverrc be #!/bin/sh #Xsun :0 # MIT R3 X11ONLY=1 $OPENWINHOME/bin/xnews # OpenWindows The nice thing about this is you are guaranteed that you will wait long enough for the server to really get going before trying to start any clients (xinit, spun off by startx, gives you that as part of its startup service, I believe). I am almost certain the 10 second sleep in the original message is not long enough. (There's no way the server will be ready to accept connections when the original author executed twm.) Place all your client apps in .xinitrc: #!/bin/sh xterm -C -geometry 80x40+5-5& emacs -geometry 80x69-5-5 & gwm -q Start all of them in the background except the window manager (which is then started last...) -- Skip (montanaro@crdgw1.ge.com)