Starting the GUI in Solaris 2.4

From: Eric J. Korpela <korpela_at_ellie.ssl.berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon Jul 16 10:56:46 2001

> I tried that. I navigated to /usr/openwin/bin/ and typed openwin at the #
> prompt. The OS returned the message "openwin: not found"

"." isn't in your path, so the openwin executable isn't being found. Even
if it were found, openwin expects /usr/openwin/bin to be in your path. I doubt
it would be able to find any of the other exectuables it needs to run.

First, I would suggest creating a user account and using that. Running as
root you'll blitz something eventually. csh is much nicer to use than sh
anyway. (I'd suggest installing tcsh or bash. They're orders of magnitude
better.)

Add /usr/openwin/bin to your PATH.
Add /usr/openwin/lib to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Add /usr/openwin/lib/fonts to your FONTPATH
Add /usr/openwin/man to your MANPATH
Now, from your home directory, type openwin.

Eric
Received on Mon Jul 16 2001 - 10:56:46 BST