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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

2623.0. "Possible to avoid the session manager??" by IJSAPL::HOEVELAKEN (U*ix is my middle name!) Wed Apr 18 1990 09:10

    Window watchers,
    
    
    The following question has appeared several times in this
    conference in many different appearances.
    However I still have a problem with no answer yet.
    Let's try:
    
    I'm creating an application for a customer running under Ultrix 3.x
    using DECwindows.
    I'm not interested in giving the user the functionality of getting
    a DECterm from the session manager or anything else from the session
    manager.
    Actually I want to shade everything out from the session manager.
    Will it be possible however to do without the session manager.
    If possible, how should I alter /etc/ttys??
    Don't say: "why don't you shade out anything you do not like"
    Just because I do not like the Quit option aswel because that will
    kill my application also and I want to do that in a controlled way,
    from the application.
    I cannot shade the quit option because than I cannot quit the
    session manager itself.
    To me the only solution left is to do without the session manager.
    How to do this???
    
    
    Regards,
    
    Henk Hoevelaken
    DEC Holland
    IJSAPL::HOEVELAKEN

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	I'm a UNIX/ULTRIX moron, but under VMS there is a file named DECW$STARTSM.COM that is executed when someone logs onto a workstation. This com file is what runs the Session Manager program. Our customer didn't want to have the Session Manager running either, instead they wanted their own application to run instead. So we just modified this file and it does exactly what they want. So this shows that you can run without the Session Manager. In my opinion, I feel that this is not the proper thing to do however, but it does seem to work. -=> Jim <=-

  I'm a UNIX/ULTRIX moron, but under VMS there is a file named DECW$STARTSM.COM
that is executed when someone logs onto a workstation.  This com file is what
runs the Session Manager program.

  Our customer didn't want to have the Session Manager running either, instead
they wanted their own application to run instead.  So we just modified this
file and it does exactly what they want.

  So this shows that you can run without the Session Manager.  In my opinion, I
feel that this is not the proper thing to do however, but it does seem to
work.

						-=> Jim <=-