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- From: jf@edv6000.tuwien.ac.at (Josef Fritscher)
- Subject: Re: Can't get xdm to work - help wanted
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.095121.11997@email.tuwien.ac.at>
- Keywords: xdm
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- References: <alb.24.716133148@uvm.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 09:51:21 GMT
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- Seems, that this becomes a FAQ ...
-
- In article <alb.24.716133148@uvm.edu>, alb@uvm.edu (Allan L. Bazinet) writes:
- |> Would some kind soul please explain to me how to get xdm to work on AIX 3.2,
- |> X11R4? The documentation is sketchy, and the support center doesn't do
- |> X windows, apparently. My local SE does them even less :).
-
- You need to get the MIT X11R5 or X11R4 first. Then you can set-up the
- X-terminal configuration with smit (don't forget the xdmcp part).
- The next part is some editing in /etc/xdm_st_mgr/x_st_mgrd.cf file to
- delete the aixterm login window part (the pclient things).
-
- |>
- |> Basically, I've got the daemon running, and all of the config files are in
- |> /usr/lib/X11/xdm. I have no entries in my Xservers file, as the system in
- |> question is a fileserver, and our Xterm 130's do XDMCP. From my
- |> understanding of the manpage, I don't need any entries with this
- |> configuration.
-
- That's right, but xdm-config and Xsession need some adoptions to your system.
-
- |>
- |> I get a login window, and the login authentication works fine. However,
- |> after a successful login, there is a pause, a blink, and the login
- |> screen is presented again. This can be repeated any number of times.
-
- What you see is pclient fighting with xdm ...
-
- |>
- |> My config files are very plain-vanilla. Rebooting the @#$%@% Xterm every
- |> time I log out is getting very old indeed; I'd like to get xdm working.
- |>
- |> -------------------------------------
- |> Allan Bazinet, University of Vermont
- |> 'We look for things -- to make us go.'
-
- A good session manager to use is sm from the X11R4 MIT contrib ...
-
- - Joe
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