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Customizing startup of the Graphical Environment

Running a session on an X terminal without scologin

You can run a Graphical Environment session on your X terminal without going through the process of configuring scologin to manage your X terminal's server. To do so:

  1. Start a telnet session on the X terminal. Connect to the host machine on which you want to run your Graphical Environment session.

  2. Once you are logged into the host machine, set the $DISPLAY environment variable to the X terminal's display. For example, if your X terminal is named vortex, you would specify:

    DISPLAY=vortex:0export DISPLAY

  3. Run the startx script, using the -t option, to start the session:

    startx -t &

  4. The scosession client is started, the Desktop appears, and you can begin your session.
If an .Xdefaults-hostname file exists in your home directory on the host machine, clients you run automatically use the resources defined in this file.
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