Solaris/SPARC question about starting CDE

[SUOrangeman]

I have had to disable graphical logins on my Sun boxes. Now that I have just a text console for logins, how can I (as an average user) start CDE from the command line? The best thing I can do is to "su; /etc/rc2.d/dtlogin start" which puts me back to the graphical login (yes, CDE works from there, but I *need* to do the text login).

Any clues?

-SUO

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Do you just want to get into the desktop? If that's the case, I would try typing

startx

I haven't gotten to screw around with CDE settings much yet, so that's all I could offer...

[sunpuke]

To start CDE go to /etc/rc2.d and type ./dtlogin start as root and exit your session. The dtlogin screen will appear in about 20 seconds. To kill the session bring up a dtterm window and cd to /usr/dt/bin and type ./dtconfig -kill.

[sunpuke]

To SUOrangeman,

What exactly are you trying to do? Do you want a graphical or command line login?