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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

Title:DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90
Notice:See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit
Moderator:STAR::VATNE
Created:Mon Oct 30 1989
Last Modified:Mon Dec 31 1990
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3726
Total number of notes:19516

2259.0. "systemwide userwritten applications" by FRSTSC::LABER () Tue Feb 13 1990 08:59

    Hello everybody - here another window problem:
    
    A customer of mine wants to start an application, which uses the
    decwindow-session manager systemwide for all users that login.	
    
    If he tries to do this in decw$login the application doesn't run,
    because the sessionmanager starts after his application is startet.
    
    Furhter on he must write the startup commando for his procedure
    to every decw$login of his users.
    
    So is there a way to solve it systemwide? - Please be patient with
    me I'm not so firm in decwindows !!
    
    Many thanks in advance 
    
    Olaf
    
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2259.1STAR::MCLEMANJeff McLeman, VMS DevelopmentTue Feb 13 1990 09:493
Try SYS$MANAGER:DECW$SYLOGIN.COM

This gets executed by every session startup on the system.
2259.2BOMBE::MOOREEat or be eatenTue Feb 13 1990 20:158
    You can delay your application startup to allow time for the session
    manager to initialize.  I use something like this in DECW$SYLOGIN.COM:
    
        $ Spawn/NoWait/Input=dev:[dir]run_my_app.com  Wait 0:01:00
    
    Perhaps someone can offer a reliable method of determining when the
    session manager is ready.  I used to watch for the DECterm controller's
    mailbox, but that doesn't work if a DECterm is not being autostarted.