Re: afterstep woes...
Andy Bradford (bradipo@xmission.com)
Tue, 23 Jun 1998 14:49:14 -0600 (MDT)
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Sean Spicer wrote:
>Problem is, I can't find any system.steprc file and when I place a
>.steprc file in my home directory, nothing happens -- things just
>default to the original setup.
I'm not sure but I think you can still use your old .steprc file by
calling afterstep with a -f flag. i.e. afterstep -f ~/.steprc
>Also, when running xdm the machine won't
>run afterstep at all. I know this probably has to do with config files,
>but I a novice with X-windows and WM's (SGI makes things too easy :). I
>would really appreciate some help getting this set to go.
If you want to turn AfterStep into your default window manager called by
xdm you could put the call in the Xsession file. Mine is found in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm though since you are using RH it may be somewhere
else. I change this:
if [ -f "$startup" ]; then
exec "$startup"
else
if [ -f "$resources" ]; then
xrdb -load "$resources"
fi
PATH="$PATH:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/opt/netscape"
exec xsm
fi
to:
if [ -f "$startup" ]; then
exec "$startup"
else
if [ -f "$resources" ]; then
xrdb -load "$resources"
fi
PATH="$PATH:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/opt/netscape"
xset fp+ unix/:7100
exec afterstep
fi
and then afterstep get's started for every user. This may not be what you
are looking for but it works. To override this all one would have to do
is put a .xsession file in their ~
Hope this helps.
Andy
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