CDE home sessions

[Tony Schmidt]

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?

[John Bolene]

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

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

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

[Pete Randall]

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

[Tony Schmidt]

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.