[SunHELP] X help!

[Steve Wingate]

Are you starting that xterm window with an & at the end?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Minvielle" <baddlci at yahoo.com>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 7:52 AM
Subject: [SunHELP] X help!


>
> I am running Sol8 and am not used to CDE, so I installed
> afterstep from the companion CD. I also put afterstep as an
> option on the CDE login screen as per the destructions at
> http://twirl.mcc.ac.uk/~zzassgl/wm.html
> Everything works ok, except for two things which I can not
> figure out.
>
> 1) When afterstep is started it loads an xterm (as per the
> instructions for the Xsession.fvwm (which is Xsession.afterstep
> in my case).. if I close this xterm it kills the entire session
> and drops back to main login screen. If I remove the exec xterm...
> from
> the Xsession.afterstep file it does not load afterstep at all,
> and falls back to the main login box.
>
> 2) After loading afterstep, I have no PATH... i.e. if I type
> set |grep PATH it shows PATH=$HOME:/bin and if I log into CDE
> it has all of the proper paths... where do I modify this??
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> =====
> Bob (number9)
> baddlci at yahoo.com
>
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