Installation manual

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Customizing DECwindows Support Software
This chapter describes how you can customize DECwindows support software.
The DECwindows components provided on the OpenVMS VAX kit supply
DECwindows base support and workstation support files only. If you have not
installed either of these DECwindows components on your system, skip this
chapter.
Depending on your configuration, DECwindows customization tasks include the
following:
• Customizing the server startup
• Using the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) as a
DECwindows transport
• Using transports with DECwindows other than those supplied by Compaq
Note that the OpenVMS VAX operating system no longer includes the VMS
DECwindows product. To get full DECwindows support, you must also install the
separate DECwindows Motif for OpenVMS VAX layered product, which supports
both the Motif and XUI environments.
9.1 Customizing the Server Startup
By default, the DECwindows server no longer logs successful connect/disconnect
messages to the DECW$SERVER_#_ERROR.LOG file. To enable these messages,
define the symbol DECW$SERVER_CONNECT_LOG in the DECW$PRIVATE_
SERVER_SETUP.COM file to be "T" and restart the server. Note that abnormal
or unsuccessful connect/disconnect messages are still logged by the server.
9.1.1 Assumptions
The startup command procedures automatically determine most of the
configuration variables for the DECwindows display server. However, there
are items that the command procedures cannot determine, so they make the
following assumptions:
• The startup procedures normally assume that you have a 75 dots/inch monitor
(such as a VR260 or VR290). However, if you are installing on a VAXstation
4000, the startup procedures assume that you have a 100 dots/inch monitor.
• If you have a GPX, SPX, or LCG workstation, the startup procedures assume
that you have a color monitor.
• The startup procedures normally assume that you have a North American
keyboard layout (you have an LK201–AA or an LK201–LA keyboard). If you
are installing on a VAXstation 4000, the startup procedures assume that you
have an LK401–AA keyboard.
• The startup procedures assume that the server will use only DECnet software
and local transports.
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