[svlug] Linuxizing Solaris

[Marco Walther]

>>>>> "KS" == Karen Shaeffer <shaeffer at got.net> writes:

KS> Hi folks,
KS> Well, I've been working in a UNIX shop that runs Sun SPARC and Solaris 7.
KS> The sysadmin is not very experienced and has his hands full just doing basic
KS> things like running the email and backups, etc...

KS> Anyway, my workstation boots up with CDE. This is terrible. I got the
KS> sysadmin to give me bash as a login shell. But I had to translate the .login
KS> (csh) script to a .bash_profile. No big deal.

KS> Anyway, next I want to dump the CDE. My goal is to have the system boot into
KS> the console. I'll start X using .xinitrc and xinit, which will then start up
KS> fvwm2. That's how I run my systems. Clearly this will require root to alter
KS> some system-wide boot scripts. Until I get the sysadmin to help out with this,
KS> I settle for just killing X and the CDE after boot.

KS> Looking around, I see the /etc/inittab is there. The main issue seems to be
KS> the dtlogin, which is part of the CDE--so I doubt I can just kill the CDE
KS> processes and then run xinit and fvwm2. Is there a way to kill the CDE and
KS> X, without crashing my system--noting the dtlogin is running?


Hi Karen,
you need only add one line at the end of your $HOME/.dtprofile

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
SESSIONTYPE=xdm
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Than choose the CDE session at the login screen and the CDE startup
scripts will run your $HOME/.xsession  (and nothing else!!). What you
put into this file is up to you but remember as soon as that process
exits the Xserver is restarted!!

This is not an official way!! But I found it as I tried similar things
than you without root access;-)

Have fun;-)
-- Marco

(I'm running KDE2.1 on my Solaris;-)

KS> TIA,
KS> -- 
KS>  Karen Shaeffer
KS>  Neuralscape; Santa Cruz, Ca. 95060
KS>  shaeffer at neuralscape.com  http://www.neuralscape.com

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