topic Re: Changing window managers in Operating System - HP-UX

Changing window managers

David Yates_2 — Wed, 03 Oct 2001 19:00:10 GMT

I am running a B132L workstation with HPUX 11.0 and I'd like to change the window manager from CDE to one of the GNU managers. I have swinstalled several onto the server, but I haven't found the file that let's me switch from CDE to the new wm. Any ideas??

Re: Changing window managers

Alex Glennie — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 07:15:53 GMT

Never tried this but ......

Edit the /etc/dt/config/Xconfig file (copy from /usr/dt/....

vi Xconfig

dtlogin*xdmMode: True

wq!

Make use of your users $HOME/.xsession script to start your desired window manager

see man xdm and also any good X ref for eg's of xsession files.

Re: Changing window managers

Wodisch — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 09:30:26 GMT

Hello David,

I am doing this quite often (and for a lot of users)
and Alex is right about the "how-to", the thing I am
missing is the part about *telling* the old "dtlogin"
process to re-read its configuration...
Just send a SIGHUP to the "dtlogin" process having
the numerically lowest PID (using "kill -1 ...").

Just my ?0.02,
Wodisch

Re: Changing window managers

Alex Glennie — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 09:33:24 GMT

maybe a /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -reset may do the trick ?

Re: Changing window managers

David Yates_2 — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 13:55:01 GMT

Thanks, guys. Both of those worked perfectly. It was exactly what I needed.

Re: Changing window managers

T-Mobile Tech Support — Thu, 10 Jan 2002 21:27:27 GMT

This does not work at all in HPUX 11i.

I cannot man xdm either.

Can someone point me to a resource to help me change the windows manage on an HPUX 11i workstation?