Mark Borges wrote:
>
> Well, with the upgrade of our OS to Solaris-2.5 comes this beast known
> as CDE 1.0.0. I've heard of CDE in the past, but this is the first
> I've seen of it in action.
>
> My impression after a two minute demo: it's a resource pig, seemingly
> spawning off a bazillion `dtwm' processes (unless our sysadmin
> mis-configured it). The available memory on our 128Mb sparc20 hovers
> around 500K now; before CDE was installed it typically was 20Mb.
>
> One thing it does offer is virtual workspaces, even for mwm-1.x (we
> won't have motif-2.0 for quite some time I'm told). And this thing
> that looks like a dashboard to switch between virtual workspaces;
> reminded me some of cvtwm. And supposedly a way to restore your
> desktop since the last time you logged out -- but it didn't work
> :0. (Isn't there an fvwm module that does something similar, or tries
> to -- FvwmSaveDeskTop?)
>
> Anyway, does anyone have any advice concerning CDE they'd like to
> share? Our sysadmin is keen on replacing XDM with CDE. Are there any
> pitfalls involved in that? Can I use fvwm under CDE? What about X
> resources? I'm concerned that CDE may somehow over-ride them with some
> others stuck in some ~/.dt/* file.
>
> Thanks for any help.
I've read it in some newsgroup.....
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.windows.x.apps
From: peterk_at_jdc.csg.mot.com (Peter Kim)
Subject: Re: Allowing users to choose FVWM in CDE login screen
Organization: Motorola Japan Cellular Subscriber Division
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 15:46:01 GMT
Message-ID: <1996Mar27.154601.22447_at_schbbs.mot.com>
Followup-To: comp.unix.solaris,comp.windows.x.apps
References: <1996Mar26.225014.21912_at_schbbs.mot.com>
Peter Kim (peterk_at_jdc.csg.mot.com) wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> Several days ago, I wrote that I was able to add FVWM as a choice for
> CDE login/session screen by creating
> /usr/dt/config/C/Xresources.d/Xresources.fvwm which looks like the
> following:
>
> Dtlogin*altDtsIncrement: True
>
> Dtlogin*altDtName: FVWM Desktop
> Dtlogin*altDtKey: /usr/bin/X11/fvwm
> Dtlogin*altDtStart: /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession
> Dtlogin*altDtLogo: Dtlogo
>
> Every time I chose fvwm in the CDE login/session screen, I saw an xterm
> console. I expected to see the FVWM desktop but did not. I then had to
> type fvwm to start FVWM.
>
> What was happening was that when I choose fvwm,
> /usr/dt/config/Xfailsafe ran instead of /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession.
>
> So I am back to the beginning. How can start FVWM from the CDE
> login/session?
>
> Thanks.
>
Thanks to Olivier.Florent_at_masi.ibp.fr, now I can choose between
CDE/FVWM/OPENWIN at the CDE login/session screen. All I had to was to
make /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession executable.
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PHONE: 847/523-3127 IL93, AS320
FAX : 847/523-8534 600 North U.S. Highway 45
EMAIL: peter_kim_at_csg.mot.com Libertyville, IL 60048
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