[comp.windows.x] xdm and OpenLook

malay@sae.com (Bob Malay) (06/19/91)

Is there way to get xdm to work with OpenLook? Or is there something out there
that works like xdm under OpenLook?

Bob Malay

schoch@starnet.com (Steve Schoch) (06/19/91)

In article <1991Jun18.230646.15295@sae.com> malay@sae.com (Bob Malay) writes:
>Is there way to get xdm to work with OpenLook?

Yes!  Just remove /usr/bin/X11/X (it's usually a symlink to Xsun) and replace
it with a shell script that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH (if you haven't already
made symlinks into /usr/lib) and execs xview.  You also need to set the
terminateServer resource in xdm-config to true because xview ignores SIGHUP.

	Steve

guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (06/21/91)

>>Is there way to get xdm to work with OpenLook?
>
>Yes!  Just remove /usr/bin/X11/X (it's usually a symlink to Xsun) and replace
>it with a shell script that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH (if you haven't already
>made symlinks into /usr/lib) and execs xview.  You also need to set the
>terminateServer resource in xdm-config to true because xview ignores SIGHUP.

OPEN LOOK != Open Windows; Open Windows is a particular X11 (and NeWS)
implementation that can provide OPEN LOOK's look&feel, but others exist,
such as AT&T's XWIN or whatever they call it.  XWIN's server may handle
SIGHUP better than Open Windows's server does.  (Heck, you can run MIT's
server and the "olwm" or "olvwm" window manager and various XView
applications, and get an OL L&F, if you want.  Or you can run the
X11/NeWS server and some *other* window manager and applications using
some other toolkit, and *not* get an OL L&F.)