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Operating Systems Solaris Solaris 8 CDE Problem Post 302914538 by hombreopaco on Tuesday 26th of August 2014 12:52:36 PM
Old 08-26-2014
Hi leosmith78 I had this same problem in the past, and it can be produced by different problems, it looks like Solaris 8 fallback to OW if the graphical login 'fails'. The bad notice, probably, one of the hidden files is corrupted, but, first of all, you must check the status of the quota (if it is active) and the home folder, it can be full. After that, I'm afraid that the most easy (not best) solution is to move all hidden files and folders to a new folder ( you can consider that the .mozilla/.basrc/.tcsh/.csh/.login/.profile, etc are not implicated, but you must not trust), after this move and a logout, the user will be asked to login in CDE or OW, the user will login in CDE without problem, at this point you can start to restore hidden files/folders and test if the login is correct, first of all you can restore the CDE (.dt) config folder, so you will need to login, see if all is correct, logout, restore a hidden file/folder, login... In my experience the .Xauthority and .Xdefaults files can produce this kind of problems, but every time can be different.
 

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DtWsmChangeBackdrop(API)												  DtWsmChangeBackdrop(API)

NAME
DtWsmChangeBackdrop -- set current workspace's backdrop SYNOPSIS
#include <Dt/Wsm.h> int DtWsmChangeBackdrop( Display *display, Window root, char *path, Pixmap pixmap); DESCRIPTION
The DtWsmChangeBackdrop function works with the CDE workspace manager, dtwm(1), and changes the current workspace's backdrop. Applications can use this function to implement an interface to the workspace manager. If the DtWsmChangeBackdrop function is not successful, the most likely reason for failure is that the CDE workspace manager, dtwm(1), is not running. DtWsmChangeBackdrop sends a message to the CDE workspace manager, dtwm(1), to change the backdrop. The path argument points to a backdrop file name. The file must be in either X Bitmap file format (with extension .bm) or Pixmap file for- mat (with extension .pm). The workspace management services look for the file along the same path used for searching icons. The directory /usr/dt/backdrops is the default directory if the file cannot be found along the icon search path. ARGUMENTS
display display root root window of the screen path file path to bitmap file pixmap pixmap ID of backdrop pixmap SEE ALSO
DtWsm(5) "Communicating with the Workspace Manager" section in the CDE Programmer's Guide "Workspace Manager" section in the CDE Programmer's Overview DtWsmChangeBackdrop(API)
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