[osol-discuss] About Solaris (mistakes) and future

[Dave Marquardt]

"Casper" == Casper Dik <Casper.Dik at Sun.COM> writes:

>> Forget about CDE - it's not a future.
>> There're other lightweight X environments also available on Solaris.
>> Perhaps making them easier to deploy on Solaris should be considered.

Casper> Yeah; are people interested in tvtwm; it's my favourite and wouldn't
Casper> mind having it installed by default.

Casper> What I would like to add in gdm but specifically dtlogin is the ability
Casper> to start a "plain, unadulterated X session".  One that just runs your
Casper> .xinitrc and that'll be all.

+1.

I've managed to get this done in some cases, but it required me
editing various configuration files as root.  That shouldn't be
necessary.  Seems like this is a function of xdm that somehow got lost
along the way.
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Dave Marquardt
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