CDE Home/Current Session

[JFS_1]

Hello,

does anybody know where the user CDE setting for "return to home session" or "return to current session" is stored ?

Probably somewehere in $HOME/.dt/..., but i can't find it !

Thx
JFS

[Alex Glennie]

see http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x567338dfa974d711abdc0090277a778c,00.html

as to the mechanism I beleive a $HOME/.dt/sessions/current or home never co-exist one gets moved to *.old depending on your preferences, default is a home session.

[JFS_1]

Hi Alex !

do you know if there are some CDE differences between HPUX 10.20 und HPUX 11 ?

We have both and my problems are on a 10.20...
On this WS i can't get my HOME session setted on an 11.0 !
But if i set the Home session on 10.20, i can get it on 11...

Thx
JFS

[Alex Glennie]

Yes there are differences : we're talking different versions of CDE 1.0 & 2.0 and some of these are linked to home and current settings, you'll see at 11.x you have the option to choose your session from the CDE login panel -> options-> session which you did not have at 10.20.

As to your problem ..."On this WS i can't get my HOME session set on an 11.0 !
But if i set the Home session on 10.20, i can get it on 11... "

Could you describe what commands or actions you have done and also what specifically you are trying to achieve ... not sure I quite understand at present.

[JFS_1]

sorry made a mistake :

the setting has automatically changed to "return to current session" and not "return to home session" like i wrote...

[Alex Glennie]

So you seem to be saying that changing your session on a 11.00 box is adversely affecting your settings on the 10.20 system.

I can't see how this can be the case, these are different systems and you I presume are loging in locally ... or is there a missing link here .... NFS mounted $HOME's or something similar at all ?

[JFS_1]

ok, i'll try to explain my problem...

i made following observation :
- on my HPUX 10.20 workstation, i set a new HOME SESSION and i log out. Then I log on an HPUX 11 workstation : my home session is called (colors, fonts, dtterms...). Everything's fine !

- on a HPUX 11 workstation, i set a new HOME SESSION and i log out. I log on my HPUX 10.20 workstation : my home session is gone, i have the standard colors and so on...
And the setting on the "set home session" panel is now "return to home session".
It changed automatically !

My goal is : i want that the home session settings are kept on all workstations, independent of the HUPX version of the WS on which i set my HOME SESSION

But actually, i'm not sure if the problem comes from this HPUX version difference or if my workstation is damaged...

thx !

[Alex Glennie]

ps what patch levels are you running wrt cde and is nis involved ?

[JFS_1]

Alex,

yes, the HOME directories of users are mounted on all our workstations (from our server).

That's why my CDE HOME SESSION (in $HOME/.dt) should be everywhere the same and i should be able to change and save it anywhere !

But i have this strange cases... i really don't see why i can't get my HOME SESSION on this 10.20 workstation...

thx

[Alex Glennie · Accepted solution]

I'd be tempted to get the latest CDE patches installed, most necessary on the 11.x systems.
see below I suspect this is our man ....

see [PHSS_25787/PACHRDME/English] : CDE Runtime Periodic Patch

1. Buffer overflow in dtspcd.
2. User's session customizations made in 11.x
are not retained in 10.20.

fyi latest 11.00 patch = PHSS_27869

[JFS_1]

sounds good ! i guess that's it.

I have to decide if i install the patch on all our 11.00 ws or if i upgrade the 10.20 ws...

Thanx !

[Alex Glennie]

I'd just try one 11.00 system just in case

a) I'm wrong

b) things go wrong

if it fixes it, role it out to all of them, but remember 10.20 is out of support in a few months anyway .....