mike@octel.UUCP (Michael D. Crawford) (09/08/89)
I am having trouble, either with xrdb, or with xterm, when starting up X with xinit. What seems to happen is that all the xterms started in my .xinitrc file ignore the properties database. Any xterms I start up later, whether from a shell command, or from a menu selection under uwm, seem to work properly. This is on a Sun 3/60 running SunOS 4.0.1, with the vanilla X11R3 tape from MIT. here is my .Xdefaults file: *titeInhibit: on This is to inhibit use of the ti and te termcap strings that switch xterm to an alternate display buffer. I understand that if no program name is given, the resource is given to all programs. Here are the pertinent parts of my .xinitrc: #!/bin/sh # This is a bourne-shell script to initialize X-Windows. (~/.xinitrc) PATH=/usr/bin/X11:$PATH ; export PATH DISPLAY=`hostname`:0.0; export DISPLAY # Set default display (to monochrome) # General stuff xrdb -display $DISPLAY -load /c/mike/.Xdefaults xhost + > /dev/null & # Let anyone create windows here xset m 3 2 # Make the mouse track nonlinearly # Set up utilities for primary screen uwm & # Window manager xterm -geometry 80x55+495+5 -e gnuemacs -nw & rsh octela -n -l root /usr/bin/X11/xterm -ls -n Octela \ -display $DISPLAY -geometry 80x24+1+1 \ '>&/dev/null' '</dev/null &' > /dev/null # Note -- this one isn't run in background; must exit for X to quit: xterm -ls -C -geometry 80x43+1-5 -n login # Login window -- Michael David Crawford Consulting for: Oddball Enterprises Octel Communications Corp 694 Nobel Drive 890 Tasman Drive Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Milpitas CA 95035 uunet!apple!vsi1!octel!mike CI$ 72377,623 Ain't got no cache, ain't no file, ain't got no disk to make you smile, Don`t worry, be happy!