Starting scosession

When scosession is started, the /usr/lib/X11/sco/ScoSession/startup script is read. This file sets up your Graphical Environment session. In particular, it:

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  loads resources located in files in /usr/lib/X11/sco/startup into the resource database, using the xrdb command. The script also loads resources stored in the file $HOME/.odtpref/ScoSession/xrdb.save. (For information on resources and the resource database, see Chapter 5, ``Understanding resources''.) These resources reside in the server and determine the basic appearance and behavior of many of the clients you run.

• restores any state information from your previous session, including mouse acceleration, threshold, mouse double-click interval, and left- or right-handed button mapping preferences. This information is determined by files located in $HOME/.odtpref.

• reads the file $HOME/.odtpref/ScoSession/dynamic if you resume a previous session or $HOME/.odtpref/ScoSession/static if you select the default session, and starts all of the specified clients. If neither of these files are located, scosession runs the clients indicated in /usr/lib/X11/sco/ScoSession/static.

  These files indicate not only the clients to run, but any special command line options used to start the applications, their geometry (size and location on the screen), the host machine from which the client can be accessed, and whether or not the client should be run in an iconified or normal state.

• starts the window manager client that is specified by the ScoSession*windowManager resource. By default, the SCO Panner window manager, an enhanced version of the OSF/Motif window manager, is run. See Chapter 5, ``Understanding resources'', for more information on resource specifications.