Conference noted::excursion

3274.0. "Can not exit CDE Session Manager (dtwm)" by JACEK::ochota.rpw.dec.com::Parlinski (Jaroslaw Parlinski @ RPW) Thu Apr 24 1997 11:16

Hi,

I try to sell PATHWORKS 32 & eXcursion to my customers working in CDE 
environment. After making changes (fonts.ali from .dt copied to the 
new local fonts dir) mentioned in eXcursion Readme file it is quite 
easy to demonstrate the CDE screen on their NT and 95 Workstations. 
It can be done without changing any setup on VMS and DUNIX stations 
(except adding PC address to the security list) - just start dtwm 
with default setting.  
The only problem we got here is to exit from the Session Manager.
After clicking on Exit button the message appears on the screen :

"The request to service this action has failed for the following reason :
 TT-ERR_NO_MATCH No handler could be foung for this message and the 
 disposition was not queue or start"

It is neccesary to close eXcursion server manually to finish the session.
There are no errors in the dt log file. The only error in the eXcursion 
log file is :
      Reply sent to Client #1, Request=GetProperty, Error=BadWindow
(but it appears only when the terminal (dtterm) session is closed - not when
somebody tries to close Sesion Manager dtwm).

And the only warning from CDE session you can see when starting terminal 
(dtterm) :
! UserFont or Fallback font cannot be proportional. Switching to default 
  fixed font.

I tested it on the different PC screen settings (256 and 64K colours, 
800x600 and 100x780 pix), with DUNIX 4.0B and VMS 7.1 servers. eXcursion 
is from PATHWORKS 32 SSB kit.

Does anybody can provide the neccesary adjustment of CDE setting to get a 
proper exit from Session Manager ?

Jarek Parlinski, Warsaw

 

    How are you starting CDE?  In a Unix environment it is best to use
    XDMCP to bring a loginbox back from the Unix system.  On VMS it's a
    bit harder.  CDE doesn't usually work right if you jump into dtwm or
    dtsession.  It's probably better to use decw$startlogin, that way
    you'll run through most of the startup mechanism.  
    
    The TT-ERR_NO_MATCH message comes from tooltalk which doesn't really
    exist in the VMS environment.  Sounds to me like this message resulted
    because you jumped into dtwm instead of using XDMCP to get a login box.
    
    #Gary
    

Hi Gary

Thanks for your help.

Yes - now, with XDMCP the UNIX session works without any problems.
(before that I started it with dtwm command).

Jarek