Since Quickstations are identical to normal Athena Workstations
except for the time-out function, all of your normal
customizations will load and applications you start on login will
run.  In many cases, you may not want or need these applications
on Quickstation logins, especially if they take time to load and
you will not be using them during your quick session.

A. AVOIDING YOUR CUSTOMIZATIONS ON A SESSION BY SESSION BASIS

There are several ways to avoid running your customizations on
Quickstations and to speed up your login by specifying a special
login session:

1. Select "Ignore your customizations" from the "Login Options"
   menu on the login screen before logging in.  This will log you
   in with the default Athena configuration which is often (not
   always) faster than using your own customizations.

2. Select "Terminal-style session" from the "Login Options" menu
   on the login screen before logging in.  You will get one xterm
   window.  If you require additional things later, you will have
   to start them up by hand.  (i.e. a window manager, zwgc, etc.)

3. Select "Check your email" from the "Login Options" menu on the
   login screen before logging in.  The machine will run a check
   to see if you have email waiting, and will then give you the
   option of logging in fully, or logging out.

4. If you only occasionally use Quickstations or only use them
   for one thing ( for example, to run xmh ), you can specify a
   single program to run using the menu option "Specify special
   login" from the "Login Options" menu on the login screen.  A
   window will appear prompting you to enter the name of a shell
   script or program.  Type in the name of the program you want
   to run on login (for example: xmh, xterm, emacs, etc.), click
   "OK" and enter your username and password.  The program you
   specified will launch.  Once you exit that program, you will
   be logged out. 

B. PERMANENTLY SETTING CUSTOMIZATIONS FOR QUICKSTATION LOGINS

To have certain commands in your dotfiles run only on
Quickstation logins, or to have certain commands in your dotfiles
run only on Non-Quickstation logins (perhaps more useful), check
for the existence of the ATHENA_QUICK environment variable.

For example the following construct in your .startup.X file:

	if(! $?ATHENA_QUICK) then
		add infoagents sipb
		netscape &
		xzewd &
		xmh &
	else
		emacs -f mh-rmail &
	endif

will run netscape, xzewd and xmh only on Non-Quickstation Athena
machines.  On Quickstations, it will instead run the emacs editor
to check your mail.  This is an example only.  You can replace
the commands in the "if...then...else...endif" clause with
anything you like.

last modified: 03/13/1997