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Date: 31 Oct 90 18:25:14 GMT
From: swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!cai.com!manager@ucsd.edu
Organization: Computer Associates International
Subject: How to start window and session managers remotely
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In article <1990Oct30.060920.13820@news.arc.nasa.gov>, mcmahon@tgv.com (John McMahon) writes:
> In article <656964482.123852.RIC@RML2.SRI.COM>, RIC@RML2.SRI.COM (Ric Steinberger) writes...
> :I have recently installed X11R4 on a unix box (Alliant), and was messing
> :around with the twm window manager.  Using a TEK XN5 (NCD 16) terminal,
> :I found I could let twm be the window manager but still keep the DEC
> :session manager.  Maybe everyone knows this but I thought it was a "trick"

In fact, there are a number of window managers in the ./contrib tree on the
X11R4 tape. Also, if you got Motif from OSF, you can use that. I have lately
been exploring interoperability of the various X implementations, from
VAXstations to diskless Sun3's to VT1000's to PC's with VGA. The 'twm' manager
is nice and light, but it doesn't look as pretty as Motif does. The following
command procedures will let you initiate window managers and session managers
wherever you want. They are not fancy, but they work for me. They might be
interesting to those just getting into X in a VMS environment. I think they are
pretty self-explanatory.

$!!!!!!!!!!!!!! START_WM.COM !!!!! Only one window manager per X server!!!!!
$ where = f$trnlnm("SYS$LOGIN")
$ read/prompt="NODE=? " sys$command node/end=exit
$ read/prompt="TRANSPORT=? " sys$command transport/end=exit
$ open/write file 'where'decw_start_wm.com
$ write file "$ set process/name=""WM_''node'""
$ write file "$ set display/create/node=''node'/transport=''transport'"
$ write file "$ spawn run decw$winmgrexe"
$ close file
$!
$ run/detach sys$system:loginout -
	/input='where'decw_start_wm.com -
	/output='where'decw_start_wm.log
$!
$exit:
$ exit

$!!!!!!!!!!!!! START_SM.COM  !!!!!! Any number of session managers at once!!!
$ where = f$trnlnm("SYS$LOGIN")
$ read/prompt="NODE=? " sys$command node/end=exit
$ read/prompt="TRANSPORT=? " sys$command transport/end=exit
$ open/write file 'where'decw_start_sm.com
$ write file "$ set process/name=""SM_''node'""
$ write file "$ set display/create/node=''node'/transport=''transport'"
$ write file "$ @sys$manager:decw$startsm"
$ close file
$!
$ run/detach sys$system:loginout -
	/input='where'decw_start_sm.com -
	/output='where'decw_start_sm.log
$!
$exit:
$ exit


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Todd Aven
Manager, Mid-range Computer Services
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