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Article #123Re: Tek XP15 x-terms and 4Dwm - followup
From: Neil J. Long
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:37
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.uiowa.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!comlab.ox.ac.uk!njl.materials.ox.ac.uk!long From: long@vax.ox.ac.uk (Neil J. Long) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.hardware Subject: Re: Tek XP15 x-terms and 4Dwm - followup Message-ID: <long.59.728167051@vax.ox.ac.uk> Date: 27 Jan 93 20:37:31 GMT References: <long.58.728075467@vax.ox.ac.uk> Organization: Materials Department, University of Oxford Lines: 34