NAME

olinit - initialize the OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface

SYNOPSIS

olinit [[client] options] [-- [server] [display] options]

DESCRIPTION

The olinit program is similar to the original X Window System xinit program, but is described here in detail to outline the difference. Aside from naming conventions, the major difference is that the default primary client is the OPEN LOOK workspace manager instead of xterm.

The olinit program is used to start the X Window System server, a primary client program (the OPEN LOOK workspace manager), and (optionally through an .olinitrc file) secondary clients (e.g., window manager or xterm). When the primary client exits, olinit will kill the X server and then terminate. If the X server exits, olinit will kill the primary client and the secondary clients and then terminate.

Unless otherwise specified on the command line, olinit assumes that there are programs called X and olwsm in the current search path. It starts the server on display 0 and then runs olwsm. An alternate primary client and/or server may be specified on the command line. The desired client program and its arguments should be given as the first command line arguments to olinit. To specify a particular server command line, append a double dash (--) to the olinit command line (after any client and arguments) followed by the desired server command.

Otherwise, they are treated as arguments to be appended to their respective startup lines. This makes it possible to add arguments (for example, foreground and background colors) without having to retype the whole command line.

If an explicit server name is not given and the first argument following the double dash (--) is a digit, the olinit program will use that number as the display number instead of zero. All remaining arguments are appended to the server command line.

olinit also creates files called .oliniterr and .olinitout and places them in the user's home directory. All errors and warnings are put in the .oliniterr file. Output to stdout is written out to the .olinitout file.

An .olinitrc file can be used to start secondary clients if olwsm is the primary client. Since it is the responsibility of olwsm to execute the .olinitrc file, the contents of .olinitrc will be ignored if an application other than olwsm is the primary client for olinit. olwsm looks for this file in the user's home directory. The format of this file is typically:

client_a &

client_b &

...

If you run .olinit with any client other than olwsm as the primary client, the .olinitrc file will not be executed.

FILES

$HOME/.olinitrc
$HOME/.oliniterr
$HOME/.olinitout

NOTE

 .olinout can only be  used  for  starting  the  server  and
clients  on  the  same  machine.  Using  olinit  with remote
servers is not supported in this release.

olinit can be used to change the screen resolution to one of three different resolutions with the following command:

olinit -- x -lines [600] [480] [400]