kemnitz@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Gregory Kemnitz) (04/25/89)
o Everything on the X tape should be POSIX compliant I just got through the arduous adventure of porting X to a System V system. (Fortunately, we had a socket implementation). Are there any plans by anyone in MIT or somewhere to make Xlib POSIX-based? (I realize that this probably won't be necessary for about a year or eighteen months, but EVERYONE's **IX (and VMS???) should be POSIX-compliant by then.) o Having LOGIN or XDM set your DISPLAY variable BEFORE exec-ing your login shell The DISPLAY variable is just like your entry in /dev/*ty*** for dumb terminals. When X terminals become standard equipment in minicomputers, forcing the users to set it in login scripts will be A MASSIVE ADMINISTRATIVE NIGHTMARE. Also, this would make X-Window a much more secure system. Greg Kemnitz
rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (04/25/89)
o Everything on the X tape should be POSIX compliant
That's a nice wish. Perhaps someday it will come true. We aren't likely
to do anything until we have compliant systems in house.
o Having LOGIN or XDM set your DISPLAY variable BEFORE exec-ing your login
shell
Huh? Xdm does set DISPLAY and other variables before exec-ing the Xsession.dougm@ico.ISC.COM (Doug McCallum) (04/26/89)
In article <642@mitisft.Convergent.COM> kemnitz@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Gregory Kemnitz) writes: ... > >o Having LOGIN or XDM set your DISPLAY variable BEFORE exec-ing your login > shell I would suspect that it is set but the System V login is discarding it. The System V login command only sets a couple of environment variables and discards those it inherited. You need to modify login to retain the DISPLAY variable.