barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) (08/28/90)
Is there a way to start DECwindows from the command line? I do not want to use /etc/ttys for starting dxsession, because our users want to choose between DECwindows and X11R4 when they log in (or even switch between them WHILE logged in). On a DECstation 3100 running Ultrix 4.0, I tried: /usr/bin/X11/xinit -- /usr/bin/Xmfb with an .xinitrc file containing the line "/usr/bin/dxsession". This brought up DECwindows just fine, but also the following very scary-looking console error messages: Fixed up unaligned data access for pid NNNN (getcons) at pc 0xNNNNN {The above repeated 4 times.} sh: Memory fault (NNNN is some hexadecimal number.) In addition, dxsession has crashed once or twice when I started it up this way. Any other suggestions? Any DEC-sanctioned way of doing this? Dan //////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ | Dan Barrett, Department of Computer Science Johns Hopkins University | | INTERNET: barrett@cs.jhu.edu | | | COMPUSERVE: >internet:barrett@cs.jhu.edu | UUCP: barrett@jhunix.UUCP | \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////////////////////
mogul@wrl.dec.com (Jeffrey Mogul) (08/28/90)
In article <6234@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes: > Is there a way to start DECwindows from the command line? I do >not want to use /etc/ttys for starting dxsession, because our users want >to choose between DECwindows and X11R4 when they log in (or even switch >between them WHILE logged in). > > Any other suggestions? Any DEC-sanctioned way of doing this? I've occasionally started DECwindows (when I sit at someone else's workstation) with % dxsession -display thishost:0 & (fill in your own choice for "thishost"). This has worked without any obvious problems, but it may be that what you are really asking for is a way to switch X servers as well; this doesn't do that. Just because I work for DEC doesn't mean that this is DEC-sanctioned. Quite the contrary. -Jeff