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- From: bruce@ncs.com (Bruce E. Parkin)
- Subject: How I got xdm to work and thanks
- Organization: National Computer Systems, Inc.
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 01:48:19 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.014819.3111@ncs.com>
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- Recently I have posted several questions to this News
- group about xdm. I would like to say thanks to all
- of you who responded with helpful answers. It has
- always impressed me how much people who read this News
- group are so helpful and kind whenever I have asked for
- help. So thank you one and all.
-
- First I found out that xdm does not work in AIX 3.2.0.
-
- Then I found out that it does not work on 3.2.3 without
- loading this other tape we got from our SE who does not
- really seem to know what it was for but said we needed
- it. It had a lot of fixes for xdm and X runtime. But
- that is our SE for you. No one here new anything either.
-
- The problems and how I solved them:
-
- 1) Without running the login program our system would
- not set the "LOGNAME" variable. (xdm does not run
- login). Without this variable set each new aixterm
- would tell you that you had mail, when you didn't,
- because of how the MAIL variable is generated.
-
- So anyhow, I changed /etc/profile from
- "readonly LOGNAME" to LOGNAME=$USER. Maybe a
- security hole, but no worry with the people I work
- with.
-
- 2) The screen saver would still come on with the large
- "X" even when the xdm login window was showing. So
- I modified /usr/lib/X11/Xserver to read:
-
- 0: local /usr/bin/X11/X11/X nologo -sdebug
-
- 3) Any time I killed any program I had started from my
- .xsession, all processes would be stopped and I would
- get logged out. This is is a real pain.
-
- I found the best solution to be to change the last
- line in the .xsession that starts an aixterm
- and remove the exec - run the last aixterm in the
- foreground. Then the auto-logout does not happen when
- any process is killed - you must kill the last aixterm.
-
-
- The rest of the configuration was as documented.
-
- --
-
- Bruce E. Parkin
- bruce@ncs.com
-