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- From: sue@byron.u.washington.edu (Shu-Chen Eclipse)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
- Subject: Help: novice trying to understand "openwin" script
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.200458.29921@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 20:04:58 GMT
- Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- I was wondering:
-
- I was trying to use the openwin script as a pattern for a script to use
- for tektronix xp27 and xp330, pc's logging to a sun sparc fileserver via
- telnet to run openwindows. There are several things I don't understand the
- function of:
-
- 1.) there a routine in openwin that checks something about frame bufferes
- or is it base frams (I can't remember). Anyway, just how does this routine
- work? and is it necessary or desirable to include this in a c-shell script
- that I would be using for the above-desribed purpose?
- Currently, I am using s much simpler script that is patterned after .xinitrc
- which basically j ust calculates the DISPLAY variable does all the other
- stuff .xinitrc does. This works fine. However, once in a while, openwin-init
- seems to fail to create on or more windows, complaining about child processes
- die-ing and something about base frame buffers---resetting the tek x servers,
- OR using this new script patterened after "openwin", with that "buffer" routine
- OR
-
-
-
- SEEMS to take care of this problem. Resetting the TEK server certainly does,
- whether the "buffer" routine does also, I don't know. Perhaps one of you
- guys can tell me.
-
- 2.) AUTHorization ROUTINE: I don't quite know if this is of any use for
- the above-described situation, since all tek,pc users would be logging in
- the
-
- to the sun sparc file servers, it would seem that this routine would not
- prevent them from messing with each other's tek/pc screens. I tried to use
- thi
-
- routine to prevent other users logged in to the server from other Tek's from
-
- sending , say, displays to others logged in to the server on other teks,--
- no good, they are still able to mess each other's screens.
-
- which lead me to another question: IS IT POSSIBLE TO RESTRICT SENDING DISPLAYS
- TO TO OTHER TEK TERMINALS IN THIS SITUATION at all??? It seems to work if
- the other user is on a sun work station, ie, he can't send displays to the
- teks with this authorization routine in force. (??)
-
-
-
-
-
- 3.) THE NEWSSERVER routine. I can get the NEWSPORT/NEWSSERVER variables
- defined ok in the script, but I don't know what to do with it.
-
- The DEMO/TUTORIAL BUTTONS IN the openwindows workspace menu don't work.
- The demo complains it can't connect to the newsserver. Apparently "xinit"
- starts up the newsserver. I don't know how this is done since xnit is a complied
- routine. I run olwm, openwin-sys, openwin-init directly in the script.
-
- Should I instead invoke "xnews" (or whatever it is that xinit runs) directly
- instead of running olwm, openwin-init,openwin-sys separately in the script??
-
- (remember, I'm on a TEk xp27/xp330/pc logged-in via telnet when I'm doing this)
-
- oh, I'm running openwindows 2.0, but will be going to version 3 later.
- the server is running sun 4.1.1.
-
- thanks for aswering,
- sue@byron.u.washington.edu
- .
-
-