From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 7 23:19:49 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id XAA28082 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 23:19:49 -0700 Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA28074 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 23:19:46 -0700 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V4.3-10 #7297) id <01HTTO276YWG0069UZ@mail.rwth-aachen.de>; Tue, 08 Aug 1995 08:20:13 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.8/8.6.9) id IAA25729; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 08:34:13 +0200 Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1995 08:34:12 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Kukulies Subject: Re: xview problem (olvwm) In-reply-to: <199508072328.IAA24292@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Aug 8, 95 08:58:06 am To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Reply-to: Christoph Kukulies Message-id: <199508080634.IAA25729@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-type: text Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-length: 2082 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Christoph P. Kukulies stands accused of saying: > > >> This looks like OPENWINHOME not being defined in the first place > > >> but it definitely *is* defined (in my .cshrc). I'm running tcsh > > >> (built under FreeBSD-2.0.5). > > > > > >> Any clues? > > > > > >.xsession is exec'd out of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession, so it's > > >most likely being run by sh, unless you've got #!/bin/csh at the > > >top. > > > > > >In that case, it's not surprising that OPENWINHOME isn't being set. > > >Either set it in your .profile, or in .xsession > > > > C'mon, you can't be serious, setting OPENWINHOME in .cshrc not being > > sufficient? The environment is a thing independent from the shell > > "C'mon" ? Look, let's follow the little tree and lets see where OK, I withdraw :-) > OPENWINHOME might possibly be read out of your .chsrc : > > If we assume you start xdm out of /etc/ttys (the best way) : > > init -> xdm -> sh Xsession -> exec ~user/.xsession -> exec wm > > Or if you start it out of /etc/rc.local : > > init -> sh /etc/rc.local -> xdm -> ... Thanks for pointing that out. I was in error. I got to investigate further what the cause might be. If anyone else is seeing a similar problem when installing xview and olvwm from ports please drop me a note. [...] > > on another machine here with an old 'props' (1.1.5.1) client. And > > I don't have any OPENWINHOME setting elsewhere on that machine > > be it in .xsession or in .profile. I don't have a .profile at all. > > Then I'd assume that the OPENWINHOME default is fine on that machine, > but not on the newer one. > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de FreeBSD blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de 2.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #0: Tue Jul 18 14:49:19 MET DST 1995 kuku@blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de: /usr/src/sys/compile/BLUESGUS i386