Good thing you asked for suggestions, not solutions...
As far as I know, items in the 'Applications' menu don't
automatically get executed when X11.app is launched. But when you say
"If we quit X11 and relaunch it, the xterm window no longer appears."
it sounds as if the you're saying the do get automatically executed.
Is that the case?
In the context of my above question, are you sure that it is the
command in the Applications menu that isn't working? Do you have a
similar one in a .xinitrc file -- because one there would get
executed at startup -- and maybe that's the command that only works
the first time?
After you relaunch X11.app, can you start a local xterm?
If you can start a local xterm, what happens if you type that command in it?
What if you logout and login instead of rebooting?
How about if you reverse the order -- rlogin first and then start an
xterm on the remote machine?
I do this with ssh, like this:
ssh -f -X remote.host xterm -bg lightsalmon -title WhatEver
If you never solve the problem, perhaps that would be an acceptable
work-around.
Have you checked all your environment variables in both contexts, and
compared them?
What if you change the -exec rlogin to something innocuous, such as
-exec xclock ?
(not that I expect that to reveal much, but if xclock works while
rlogin doesn't, that would seem to eliminate a whole class of causes)
10.2 is fairly old. Somewhere along the line Apple changed the
default shell from tcsh to some other shell (bash, I think), and if I
remember correctly, tcsh was still the default in 10.2 (but the
memory is definitely hazy). Check your shell initialization scripts.
-Don
At 12:02 PM -0400 8/31/05, Chris Jacob wrote:
Hi there.
We've just switched to using X11 on Tiger (10.4.2), having used OS X
10.2.n until now.
We use X11 to get access to a couple of Sun machines. We have
customized the 'Applications' menu in X11 with lines like:
so we end up with an xterm window rlogged in to the remote sun machine.
This used to work perfectly. Now, it works for only the first time
we run X11 on one of our new macs. If we quit X11 and relaunch it,
the xterm window no longer appears. A reboot fixes the problem
temporarily.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Chris J.
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