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- From: beck@beck@freia.inf.tu-dresden.de (Andre Beck)
- Subject: Re: xv root tile as background for login screen
- Message-ID: <NPR8ZUJ@math.fu-berlin.de>
- Sender: beck@irzr17.inf.tu-dresden.de (Andre Beck)
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany.
- References: <BxBDJ6.7F9@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> <1992Nov9.153635.15690@riacs.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:46:21 GMT
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- It seems at least the XUI version of Xprompter somehow locks the Xws
- server for exclusive access (I think using XGrabServer()).
- Therefore, another prg as f.i. xv will open the display, and its first
- output to it sends it to sleep... until the prompter disappears.
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