Any way to migrate from CDE to VUE

[J.D.Akers]

I have a C3600 HP/UX 10.20 machine which came installed with CDE as the defuault interface, and all of my other HP machines use VUE, which i find is much more user configurable. The machine has vue installed is there any way to use vue as my default window manager, and or visual interface? Thank a bunch.

[OldSchool]

VUE? You've still got 9.x machines then I take it?

If I remember correctly, CDE replaced VUE during the transition from HP-UX 9 to HP-UX 10. To my knowledge, VUE is neither available nor supported.

I see you just registered. You are aware that 10.20 is way out of support, right?

[Pete Randall]

I believe, back in 10.20, that there was a command that you could use to switch back and forth from CDE to VUE. See if you've got a /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig command on your system. The instructions I can find for using it say:

1. Log out of the CDE session
2. From the CDE login screen, use the Options menu to select Command Line Login.
3. Log into the console as root.
4. Execute the command /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -d
This will prevent CDE from starting when the system is rebooted.
5. Reboot the system by executing "shutdown -r"

To switch back, the steps are the same, but the command will "dtconfig -e".


Pete

[Pete Randall]

I should add that, the above procedure assumes that both VUE and CDE filesets are installed.


Pete

[Alex Glennie · Accepted solution]

see http://aa11.cjb.net/hpux_admin/1998/0066.html

CDE starts by default at run-level 3 vue 4

[J.D.Akers]

The instructions given for /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -d worked great. However it would only let me log in as root. If I tried to log in as any other user it would immediately bring back up the login screen. Does anyone have any ideas about this, or where there is a log file i can look at to see why its not logging in. Thanks again for your expertise.

[Alex Glennie]

try running /usr/contrib/bin/dr_vue ?

examine syslog.log, $HOME/.vue/error.log start.log etc ...

/var/vue/Xerrors ..if it exists ?



could you also clarify what actions you took and if users have locally mounted accounts ?

[J.D.Akers]

Alex - the actions I took were the suggested steps provided @ the link you provided, also all of the users are locally mounted for this machine.

Anyway, thanks to all who provided insite, I found the problem in the $HOME/.vue/errorlog it was complaining because of some configuration problems in the $HOME/.vue/vuewmrc file that were carried over from copying user information from another machine.

[Pete Randall]

Just you know, being a new Forums participant, it is customary to say thank you to those who have given you help by assigning points to their responses. Click on the pull down and select an appropriate value, then go down to the bottom of the page and click on "submit points".


Pete