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- From: mamros@athena.lkg.dec.com (Shawn Mamros)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: dxsession beginner help??
- Message-ID: <8749@athena.lkg.dec.com>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 22:03:25 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.095847.4809@sdz01.uu.ch> <mcook.713902817@fendahl.dev.cdx.mot.com>
- Sender: mamros@cavedog.athena.lkg.dec.com (Shawn Mamros)
- Reply-To: mamros@athena.lkg.dec.com (Shawn Mamros)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- mcook@fendahl.dev.cdx.mot.com (Michael Cook) writes:
- |> I seem to remember that the session manager (dxsession) starts the window
- |> manager (dxwm, normally) by doing $SHELL -c dxwm, where $SHELL was extracted
- |> from /etc/passwd. The shell you've selected for these users is probably
- |> refusing to run their window manager.
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- That may be true, but also, login(1) itself execs $SHELL -c <cmd>, where
- <cmd> is the argument specified by -C to login as listed in /etc/ttys for
- graphics displays (this argument is typically /usr/bin/dxsession). (If
- there is no -C, login execs just $SHELL as usual.)
-
- -Shawn Mamros
- E-mail to: mamros@athena.lkg.dec.com
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