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- From: long@vax.ox.ac.uk (Neil J. Long)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.hardware
- Subject: Re: Tek XP15 x-terms and 4Dwm - followup
- Message-ID: <long.59.728167051@vax.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 20:37:31 GMT
- References: <long.58.728075467@vax.ox.ac.uk>
- Organization: Materials Department, University of Oxford
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- In article <long.58.728075467@vax.ox.ac.uk> long@vax.ox.ac.uk (Neil J. Long) writes:
- >From: long@vax.ox.ac.uk (Neil J. Long)
- >Subject: Tek XP15 x-terms and 4Dwm
- >Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:11:07 GMT
- >HI
- >I am setting up some Tek XP15 terminals to run in a mixed host environment.
- >Apart from the usual inconsistencies with the <= key between DEC, SGI, etc
- >the only major problem I am having is that 'endsession' won't work correctly.
- >There appears to be an error generated by the xprop part of the script where
- >it is having difficulties with the DISPLAY environment (somehow the last
- >digit is missing) and since it works with everything else I won't mess
- >with this.
- >
- >I haven't had this problem with various PC X emulators (all awfully slow in
- >comparison with the Tek's) which always disengage gracefully.
- >
- >Has anyone come across this little problem (it may be due to the Tek ROM's
- >which will be updated 'real soon' but might be something else).
- >
- >If I start 4Dwm from a telnet session I have to kill the PS before exiting
- >otherwise the screen is alive and well but needs resetting before any more
- >logins can be made.
- >
- >Obviously this is not strictly to do with sgi.hardware but it is a
- >reasonable home for my question 8-)
- >Thanks
- >Neil
-
- I have found a cure and a new problem - the problem is with endsession
- and the name of the Xterm containing numbers. Changing the name of the
- xterms to all letters was the quick workaround. Is there a standard
- fix for the endsession script?
- Neil
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