[SunHELP] Xsession.wm file problem

[Michael Hansen]

Everything in .profile works just fine in
CDE/dtwm and olwm. I left .dtprofile
unmodified, and DTSOURCEPROFILE is set true.
All the environment variables are also
set properly for telnet sessions. (I know I
should disable telnet, but I haven't gotten
around to it yet.)

I can't help thinking that .profile/.dtprofile
are simply being ignored the way I have wm2
starting. I think I need to learn more about
what is supposed to happen when a window manager
is loaded, and what files control the process.
Is there any reference I could check out which
might clear this up?

Thanks,
-Mike

<<< ravikatti at hotmail.com  2/ 4  3:57p >>>
How are you setting things in .profile? Let us know. Its pretty simple and
you are already doing it in xsession.wm.
Also check your .dtprofile file and see for this string
"DTSOURCEPROFILE=true".

Thanks


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Michael Hansen" <mhansen at Landmarkcollege.org>
Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
To: <SunHELP at sunhelp.org>
Subject: [SunHELP] Xsession.wm file problem
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 03:23:31 -0500

Ok, maybe I'm being dense here, I can't find
any more FAQs to read. If this is a "dumb
question", my apologies. This is my second
try, if you get Deja Vue reading this.

Given:
Solaris 7/SPARC with wm2 run from
/usr/dt/config/Xsession.wm

I managed to get all my environment variables
set up by putting all the "VARIABLE=..." and
"export VARIABLE" stuff in my Xsession.wm file,
but I would really prefer to set them from
.profile or a shell script in the home directory.
So far, all my attempts to do this have failed.

I have a strong feeling that I am going about
this the wrong way. Could someone point me
in the right direction?

I am currently the only user of this machine,
but I want to give some other students accounts
on it so we can collaborate on projects better.
I would like to give them the ability to set
their own environment variables, and still be
able to use the wm2 window manager, which clearly
offers a performance advantage over dtwm.

(Also, since wm2 is unconfigurable without
recompiling, one more potential distraction
is eliminated. Since over half the students
at my college have Attention Defficit Disorder,
including myself, I think we will get much more
work done if we can't zone out for half an hour
fooling with the window manager configuration.)

Thanks,
-Mike
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Thanks & Regards
Ravi


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