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- From: johnb@edge.cis.mcmaster.ca (John Benjamins)
- Subject: Re: help with xdm -- pleeeeeeease...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.160557.2525@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
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- References: <Bz09zw.AGn@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec12.055443.8995@plx.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:05:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec12.055443.8995@plx.com> thomas@plxsun (Thomas Leibold) writes:
- >Jeremy Payne (jrpg8255@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
- >: I've been pulling my hair out for some time now trying to get
- >: xdm to work using SunOS 4.1.1 & openwindows 2.0. I can get it
- >: installed etc., but logging in results in a gadget-less xterm
- >: in the upper corner and nothing else -- not what I had in mind.
- >
- >You are actually getting further than we did with Sun's xdm. On our system
- >it's replaced with the MIT X11R4 xdm.
- >It sounds as if you don't start a window manager for your session. Unless you
- >use a X-terminal with buildin window manager, you need to run a window manager.
- >Your Xsession file should start a window manager for you, if you don't have
- >a .xsession file in your $HOME-directory. If you have a .xsession file put
- >the command to start the window manager there. For openwindows this is:
- > olwm &
- >You may have other window managers available on your system too.
- >
-
- If you start the openwin version of xdm properly, there's no major
- problem. In my /etc/rc.local I have (near the end):
-
- if [ -f /etc/rc.xdm ]; then
- echo "Starting X Display Manager, xdm"
- sh /etc/rc.xdm
- fi
-
- and then in /etc/rc.xdm I have:
-
- #!/bin/sh
- #
- # @(#)rc.xdm 1.0 26/02/92 -- johnb CIS
- #
- OPENWINHOME=${OPENWINHOME:-/usr/openwin}
- LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$OPENWINHOME/lib:/usr/lib
- PATH=$OPENWINHOME/bin:$PATH
- export LD_LIBRARY_PATH PATH OPENWINHOME
-
- $OPENWINHOME/bin/xdm -config $OPENWINHOME/lib/xdm/xdm-config
-
- I have no problems with xdm at this point, works just like the X11R4
- one again:-)
-
- Hope this helps.
- --
- // E. John Benjamins -- <johnb@edge.cis.mcmaster.ca>
- // "Facts are simple and facts are straight. Facts are lazy and facts are late.
- \\ Facts all come with points of view. Facts don't do what I want them to."
- \\ - David Byrne (Talking Heads)
-