X daemon

[Helen Herring]

We have an X daemon running. I have looked for documentation explaining but can not find anything. What is the x daemon? glance shows as process name X and user daemon. Sometimes there will be an additional process name X with user name root. K260 running HP-UX 11.11 and CDE. We do run exceed from our win nt clients to emulate the unix terminals.

[Stefan Farrelly]

The X daemon is the main HP-UX process which handles all graphical connections to the server. Either users using X-terminals, or an HP workstation running X/CDE, or X emulators running on PC's (Exceed, Reflections etc.)

Thus, you would expect the X process to be rather busy depending on how many users have graphical connections to your server, and you do not want to kill it !

[Alex Glennie]

Stefan hit the nail on the head : for the documentation : try man Xserver and X (note upper case)

[Lou Zirko_1]

If you have man pages installed you can do a

man X (yes cap X)

to get more of the information you may be seeking.

If you do not require any X based programs to access your system or do not desire to run any on this system you can change the run state to 3 from 4. Run state 4 is the one that starts up the system with the "graphical" options. This includes CDE also.

This can be changed in /etc/inittab by changing the first line as follows:

init:3:initdefault

There probably is a 4 currently where the 3 is. Next time you boot you will come up in run state 3. You may also what to make sure that if you have other processes that you require that are only currently started in run state 4 that those are modified to run in 3.

Lou Zirko



Lou Zirko

[Alex Glennie]

fyi : Run level 3 and 4 are both used for Graphics, run-level 4 was the default for VUE. CDE's default is 3 !

If you don't wish for CDE to start locally I'd advise you cp Xservers from /usr/dt/config -> /etc/dt/config and put a # in front of * Local locale@console ... then restart the Xserver

remote clients/users will still be able to run CDE

[Helen Herring]

We do run CDE so guess we need X in run state 4. It's just confusing - motif, dtterm, X, hpterm. I'll keep searching. Thanks.

[Alex Glennie]

If it ain't broke don't fix it !

ie your initial question what is X for .... now you know, why change anything/keep looking ?