[1659] in Athena Bugs
(RTPC) Version 6.0R: Xibm and xterm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Sun Jan 15 21:34:09 1989
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 89 21:33:36 EST
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
System type, version: (RTPC) Version 6.0R
System name: PIT-MANAGER
What's wrong:
In an attempt to customize my workstation I wrote the following short
program to replace the invocation of /etc/xterm in /etc/ttys:
#include <X11/Xlib.h>
#include <X11/cursorfont.h>
static char *argv[] = {
"xterm", "-C", "-L", "-geometry", "80x76+0+0", "-display", ":0",
"-bg", "violet", "-fg", "yellow", "-bw", "2", "-bd", "red", "-cr",
"yellow", (char *) 0};
main()
{
XColor green, violet, garbage;
Display *display;
Window root_w;
Cursor root_c;
display = XOpenDisplay(":0");
root_w = RootWindow(display, 0);
XAllocNamedColor(display, DefaultColormap(display, 0), "green",
&green, &garbage);
XAllocNamedColor(display, DefaultColormap(display, 0), "violet",
&violet, &garbage);
root_c = XCreateFontCursor(display, XC_X_cursor);
XRecolorCursor(display, root_c, &green, &violet);
XDefineCursor(display, root_w, root_c);
XFlush(display);
execv("/etc/xterm", argv);
}
The intent of this program, if you can't tell, is to change the color
of the X cursor from black and white to green and violet (no comments
on the color combination, please) and then to invoke a login xterm.
The program works perfectly when I use it only to change the cursor
color and do not put in the invocation of xterm.
However, when I put the line to execute it into /etc/ttys and try to
activate the X server, I get the error "xterm: cannot
open(/dev/tty-L)" and an error code of something like 31 with a minor
error code of 6 (I think those are the numbers -- I can't be more
specific because they scroll off the screen too quickly for me to read
them and remember them.).
Why does this happen? Why is xterm trying to pen /dev/tty-L?
--> Jonathan Kamens
Project Athena Watchmaker
SIPB (Student Information Processing Board) Member
Volunteer OLC Consultant
jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
