xinit in solaris 10

crisostomo_enrico · 02-28-2007, 05:32 AM

Hi.

I'm still exploring my system and was wondering why the only xinit I have is found in /usr/openwin/bin. Can I use this to launch my X server? And if yes, why is it there? I wanted to write a xinit frontend (such as startx) and blocked my task at this very beginning... Really, what I want to accomplish is the possibility of logging in the terminal and starting X using my own .xinitrc.

Thanks,
Enrico.

jlliagre · 02-28-2007, 06:43 AM

You can sure use /usr/openwin/bin/xinit. /usr/openwin is the legacy X11 location under Solaris.

You need to first disable the automatic X server launch. (/usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -d)

Xorg specific binaries are in /usr/X11R6/bin.

crisostomo_enrico · 03-01-2007, 03:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jlliagre

You need to first disable the automatic X server launch. (/usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -d)

Thanks jlliagre, it _almost_ works! I launched dtconfig -d and it reports desktop login as being disabled. Unfortunately, as soon as I log out from the console, the desktop environment is started again!

jlliagre · 03-01-2007, 07:30 AM

I did work. I suggest you to read the dtconfig manual page to understand the current behavior.

crisostomo_enrico · 03-01-2007, 07:37 AM

well, I read it and probably got some problem with it. The man page states that:

OPTIONS

-d Disables desktop auto-start feature. At end of boot cycle, platform's
native text based login mechanism will be used. [removed, I copied from wrong docs... :S]

So:

> -d Disables desktop auto-start feature. At end of boot cycle, platform's
> native text based login mechanism will be used.
Yesterday I rebooted, so I think I should have seen text based login.

Where am I wrong? I'm surely missing something!