| Title: | DECWINDOWS |
| Notice: | DECwindows Motif V1.2-4 SSB kits: note 5519 |
| Moderator: | GRIM::MESSENGER |
| Created: | Wed Nov 28 1990 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5861 |
| Total number of notes: | 24081 |
A customer has found a strange behavior with the console window at the CDE login screen. We can reproduce it here as well. In the sys$manager:DECW$STARTAPPS.COM file, he modified these two lines: $ decw$console_selection == "WINDOW" $ decw$console_geometry == "+0+0" After he restarted the window manager, the console window flashed in the upper left corner of the screen then went away as the login box came up. When he logged in, the console window came back to the upper left. If he set the decw$console_geometry to be "+0-0" (lower left) or "-0-0" (lower left), it stays on the screen when the login box id present. If it's set to "+0+0" (upper left) or "-0+0" (upper right), it does what I described in the paragraph above. The customer has an Alpha Station 250 with OVMS V6.2 - I tested it on a DEC3000 with OVMS V7.1. Is this a bug? Is there any quick away around it or should we elevate it? Thanks Dave
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| 5795.1 | Its designed that way | DECWIN::STEFANELLI | Great googaly moogaly | Thu Mar 06 1997 09:39 | 35 |
The background for the login screen is covering the console window. With the default implementation of CDE, a background window is drawn with the login screen that covers the whole screen. For VMS (and Digital UNIX) it leaves an area along the bottom of the screen (200 pixels) uncovered where the console window normally appears. Any part of any pre-existing window, like the console window, which extends beyond the bottom 200 pixels will be covered. You can do the following to have the login manager cover all but the top 200 pixels: - create the directory cde$user_common:[config.c] - copy cde$system_defaults:[config.c]xresources.dat to the new directory - add the following resource specification to the end of the new xresources.dat: Dtlogin*login_shell.y: 200 - then do a "Reset Login Screen" under options (or restart DECwindows) Doing the above will shift the login box down on the screen by 200 pixels. I couldn't come up with any other resource specification to undo this. Many are hardcoded within the login manager code. The height of the window covering the background is fixed so you couldn't leave the top and the bottom uncovered without a code change. Note also that the login manager grabs the keyboard so you usually can't interact with applications that are displayed while the login screen is alos displayed. Doug | |||||
| 5795.2 | RHETT::BURDEN | A bear in his natural habitat | Thu Mar 06 1997 14:14 | 3 | |
Thanks Doug, that does the trick. Dave | |||||