mark@spider.co.UK (Mark Valentine) (01/09/89)
Am I missing something, or is there no way to get the equivalent of
stty susp undef
using the ttyModes resource of xterm? (This is in X11r3.) I have no
spare control keys to waste on unwanted bindings, and would like to avoid
an extra layer of shell around utilities that I start up in an xterm.
On a more general basis, I'd be interested to hear of the techniques
people have adopted for setting up their environments for executing
programs within the context of X. The more interesting cases are those
of a remote server (I currently use a little VAXstation as an X terminal
by running twm on a largish MicroVAX, which just happens to be the file
server).
I've resorted to setting the loginShell resource for shell sessions
(no .cshrc/.env in my Bourne shell derivative), and that manages to
set environment variables and perform the appropriate stty and umask.
I don't know if this was the intended use of this resource.
Most of my setup problems are solved by passing *all* of my environment
to the window manager (with another overhaul of my .profile I'll be able
to use
rsh bigvax PATH=$PATH DISPLAY=weevax:0 withenv twm &
where withenv is a shell script containing ``. .profile; exec "$@"''.
My .xinitc/.Xsession also does a ``. .profile''.
Has there ever been a guide produced on the general subject of designing
a .profile for an NFS/X11 environment? Such a thing would ease some of the
pain in upgrading from simpler environments. I'm lucky in that I learned
half the lessons when I started using a version of Oliver Laumann's "screen"
which I'd hacked to give the equivalent of xterm's -ls flag, but for many
people around me there's an even greater effort required to make best use
of an X environment.
Thanks in advance for any tips you can pass on,
Mark.
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