Re: Start Desktop Manager

From: Jorgen Moquist (jorgen.moquist-nospam_at_mailbox.swipnet.se)
Date: 12/11/03 

Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 02:20:58 +0100

Helmut Schneider wrote:
> Hi,
>
> using Sol9 SPARC I would like to know how to start the Desktop. As I
> connect via putty I would like to start it from the shell. X Forwarding
> is active and working (xterm works fine). I was looking for kde, cde,
> gdm and xdm but it either does not exist (yeah, I know, KDE has to be
> installed seperatly) or does not do anything.
>
> Thanks, Helmut
>
i used to use this script, its lousy but worked:
set the correct DISPLAY and...
: startcde.sh
/Jörgen
------startcde.sh----------
#!/bin/sh
# script: startcde.sh
DISPLAY=youre-host:x.x ; export DISPLAY
PATH=:${PATH}:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb; export PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/usr/ucblib; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
#exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit /usr/dt/bin/Xsession >> $HOME/.cde.log 2>&1
exec xinit /usr/dt/bin/Xsession >> $HOME/.cde.log 2>&1