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- From: DAVISM@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael T. Davis)
- Subject: Re: Use of xdm for local display
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.214557.28379@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan12.123849.17107@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:45:57 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan12.123849.17107@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, I wrote:
-
- >
- > We have a DECstation 5000/240 and a VXT 2000 X-terminal. The X-
- >terminal uses xdm to set up a session on the DECstation. Is there a way to use
- >xdm for the DECstation's local display, rather than Xprompter?
- >
-
- In a private message Brian Wentz (wentz@csugrad.cs.vt.edu) recommended the
- following:
-
- >In /etc/ttys, change the last line from the one that
- >begins with ':0' and starts the Xprompter to one like this:
- >
- >:0 none none off secure
- >
- >Now, in rc.local, add this line in towards the end:
- >
- >/usr/bin/X11/xdm
- >
- >(Or wherever you're keeping xdm).
- >
- >You'll also need to configure the xdm files in /usr/lib/X11/xdm to reflect
- >where you're keeping your X window server (usually Xws on DEC's) and some
- >other things.
-
- This seems to work, giving me 90% functionality. I'm having trouble
- specifying display-specific resources in xdm-config. Here's what it looks
- like:
-
- DisplayManager.servers: /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers
- DisplayManager.errorLogFile: /var/X11/xdm/xdm-errors
- DisplayManager.pidFile: /var/X11/xdm/xdm-pid
- DisplayManager*resources: /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xresources
- DisplayManager*session: /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession
- DisplayManager.remoteAuthDir: /var/X11/xdm
- DisplayManager*authorize: false
-
- If I add the line
-
- DisplayManager.0.resources: /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xresources-0
-
- so that I can specify different resources for the local display, it doesn't
- seem to work. I've tried variations on _0 and _0_0, etc. without any success.
- Can anyone offer a hint? BTW, we're running under 4.2a.
-
- Thanks,
- Mike
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