SUMMARY: Help with CDE

Charles Gagnon (charlesg@nynexst.com)
Mon, 16 Jun 1997 15:20:49 -0400

Hello everyone, sorry for the late summary.

I finally found a solution for my CDE problem. The problem was...

> I'm running CDE off of a SS5 running SunOS 5.5.1. I configures CDE so it
> uses fvwm instead of dtwm (did that by modifying the dt.session file for
> my home session, added a dtsession*wmStartupCommand in my dt.ressources file).
>
> Now it works fine but whenever I exit FVWM2, it doesn't kill the XSun
> running and doesn't go back to the login screen and I'm clueless as too
> why.

With the answers I was able to patch this problem by changing the Exit
function of fvwm2 to perform a "/usr/dt/bin/dtaction ExitSession" instead of
the regular "Quit". I fixed it in the ${HOME}/.fvwm2rc file and mapped the
exit menu to that new function.

It works really well now.

Special Thanks to:

Casper Dik *Re: Help with CDE
"Rick von Richter" *Re: Help with CDE
Peter Gray *Re: Help with CDE (again)
Laurent Duperval *Re: Help with CDE
bill@cogsci.ed.ac.uk *Re: Help with CDE (again)

For their reply.

Here are some of the answers...

On Jun 10, Casper Dik writes:
> Subject: Re: Help with CDE
>
> the best diagnostics tool for this is probably "ptree"; it'll show you the
> process relations and may tell you which processes the session is waiting
> for.
>
> For FVWM exit to work, it needs to be the last client started and the
> one client Xsession waits for.
>
> (/usr/proc/bin/ptree)
>
> Casper

On Jun 11, Peter Gray writes:
> Subject: Re: Help with CDE (again)
>
> You have to send it a ExitSession message via the dtaction command. See the
> man page to dtaction, dtactionfile and dtsession.
>
> Regards,
> pdg

-- 
Charles Gagnon                   | Any reproduction, in whole or in part,
Systems Admin, Pencom PSA        | of the opinions herein without written
Charlesg@Psa.Pencom.COM          | consent of the National Opinion Guild
at: Nynex Science and Technology | is strictly forbidden.

I can't find the Any key. -- someone