LAST MODIFIED DATE: November 21, 2005

VERSION: This applies to Exceed version 10.0

PROBLEM:

When the Selected Workspace option is set in Xstart, the x-application, for example xterm does not appear. If the Active Workspace option is selected the x-application appears with no trouble.

SOLUTION:

The problem is actually related to the field size of the command line when the Selected Workspace option is used in combination with the startup method in Xstart. If the startup method is Rlogin, the maximum number of characters that can be sent to the remote shell is about 100 characters. If the command line goes beyond this limit, the command line does not get executed.

This is a limitation of using Rlogin and the Selected Workspace option.

To execute lengthy command lines when using the Selected Workspace option and Rlogin in Xstart, the user can create a script on the host itself that contains the full command sequence and have Xstart execute the script.

For Example, with the Selected Workspace option set and Rlogin as the startup method the following Xstart command line will not execute:

/usr/openwin/bin/xterm -display @d -title "description" -n "host name" -bg cyan -fg black -geometry 132x25

Here is a sample script the user can create on his host (Unix) to avoid the character length limitation. The following example is for a Solaris machine:

/usr/openwin/bin/xterm -title "description" -n "host name" -bg cyan -fg black -geometry 132x25 -display `who -m |nawk -F"[()]" '{ print $2 }'`:0&

The user can call the above script from the Xstart command line.