Starting and Stopping the AIX Common Desktop Environment

System Management Guide: Operating System and Devices

Starting and Stopping the AIX Common Desktop Environment

You can set up the system so that AIX Common Desktop Environment comes up automatically when you start the system, or you can start AIX Common Desktop Environment manually. You must log in as root to perform each of these tasks.

Enabling and Disabling Desktop Autostart

You may find it more convenient to set up your system to start AIX Common Desktop Environment automatically when the system is turned on. You can do this through the Web-based System Manager fast path, wsm system, through the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT), or from a command line.

Prerequisite

You must have root user authority to enable or disable desktop auto-start.

Starting/Stopping the AIX Common Desktop Environment Automatically Tasks
Web-based System Manager: wsm system fast path (System application) -OR-
Task	SMIT Fast Path	Command or File
Enabling the Desktop Auto-Start ¹	smit dtconfig	dtconfig -e
Disabling the Desktop Auto-Start ¹	smit dtconfig	dtconfig -d

¹ Note: Restart the machine after completing this task.

Starting AIX Common Desktop Environment Manually

You can start AIX Common Desktop Environment manually.

Start the Desktop Login Manager Manually

Log in to your system as root.
At the command line, enter:
```
/usr/dt/bin/dtlogin -daemon
```

A Desktop Login screen will display. When you log in, you will start a desktop session.

Stopping AIX Common Desktop Environment Manually

You can stop AIX Common Desktop Environment manually.

Stop the Login Manager Manually

When you manually stop the login manager, all X servers and desktop sessions that the login manager started are stopped.

Open a terminal emulator window and log in as root.
Obtain the process ID of the Login Manager by entering the following:
```
cat /var/dt/Xpid
```
Stop the Login Manager by entering:
```
kill -term process_id
```