topic CDE home sessions in Operating System - HP-UX

CDE home sessions

Tony Schmidt — Tue, 03 Dec 2002 21:03:53 GMT

I have 16 a-class servers that are used to serve CDE startup windows to a large group of thin-clients. I reboot the a-class servers each Sunday night. The problem I have is some users occasionally lose there personal CDE setups after the reboot, for naming the differant windows, and other style manager variables. They have gone in and used style manager - startup - return to home session. But still, only occasionally, some people lose their setup and have to start over customizing their CDE environment. What file exactly holds this information and why am I losing it?

Re: CDE home sessions

John Bolene — Tue, 03 Dec 2002 21:11:04 GMT

Have they ever exited so that the setup is saved? That is the time it is saved and not when they make changes.

the files are in ~/.dt/sessions/home

Re: CDE home sessions

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Tue, 03 Dec 2002 21:17:08 GMT

The information is under $HOME/.dt/sessions/current directory. If they made any changes and didn't restart they CDE, then rebooting the workstation may cause losing the setup.

-Sri

Re: CDE home sessions

Pete Randall — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 11:35:52 GMT

Tony,

If they've selected "return to home session", they have to hit the save home session button to get it saved initially. That records the info in ~/.dt/sessions/home.

If they've done all this correctly and they're still losing their settings occasionally, I would look into patches. Make sure you're up to date on the latest and greatest CDE cumulative patches - we used to see something like this quite a while ago, maybe back on 10.20?

Pete

Re: CDE home sessions

Tony Schmidt — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 16:23:40 GMT

We have saved the correct settings before closing and the settings will work when you log off and back in. So I know they are saved. It is only after a system reboot and even then it only happens sometimes. Maybe the patches are the way to go. Thanks all.