Ultrix 4.2 gripe
Joel Gringorten
gringort at wsl.dec.com
Thu Jun 27 06:57:18 AEST 1991
In article <17826 at helios.TAMU.EDU>, j1h9453 at eagle.tamu.edu (Joel Andrew Huddleston) writes:
|> I thought I might warn people out there supporting DECStations. I don't know
|> how far this goes back in the version list, but under Ultrix 4.2, there is a
|> file in /usr/skel called .Xdefaults. This is a swell initialization file for
|> someone who already knows how to set up X applications or for someone who
|> never wants to change a thing. However, the Session Manager supplied by DEC
|> can't understand this file well enough to change what it does. Consequently,
|> if a user tries to use the Session Manager's Customize menu to set defaults,
|> it doesn't work. But, it doesn't work in such a way that it *thinks* it is
|> working, *seems* to be working, *tells* you it is working, *warns* you that it
|> won't work until you restart your session, but doesn't change everything.
Customizations in the session manager have always worked just fine as far as
I know. Manual mods to my .Xdefaults always work fine as well and don't bother
the session manager one bit. I think if this stopped working we'd be getting
an awful lot of problems reports -- and we're not.
|>
|> C'mon DEC! Give us a break. If you include some nifty startup file, make
|> sure that it is going to work with the product you wrote to update it.
|> Doesn't that make sense?
I hate to say this, but what makes more sense is that perhaps you're doing
something wrong.
-joel
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