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Re: Tek XP15 x-terms and 4Dwm - followup

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From: Neil J. Long
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:37
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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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From: long@vax.ox.ac.uk (Neil J. Long)
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Subject: Re: Tek XP15 x-terms and 4Dwm - followup
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Date: 27 Jan 93 20:37:31 GMT
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