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- From: coizi01@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (N. Zimmermann)
- Subject: xdm problems solved!
- Message-ID: <coizi01.722534063@convex>
- Summary: xdm problems solved
- Keywords: xdm Xdm X
- Sender: news@softserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (News Operator)
- Organization: Comp. Center (ZDV) U of Tuebingen, FRG
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:54:23 GMT
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- Hi all,
-
- I've finally solved my problems running xdm. The questions about
- xdm seemed to be FAQ, therefore... here's my personal solution:
-
- * Use Xdm distribution from SLS.
- * Setup an emty .Xauthority for every user.
- * Uncomment the first line in /etc/inittab which spawns a getty on tty1.
- * Run xdm with the /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xdm script from rc.local.
- * in rc.local use doshell or a doshell like programm to connect
- /dev/tty1 to xdm. I've modified the original doshell.c from tsx-11
- to run the Xdm shellscript with
- execlp(argv[2], argv[2], argv[3], (char *) 0);
- where argv[3] is the Xdm shellscript. If you don't connect xdm
- to a tty, then the window manager starts up, but no shell can be
- spawned.
- * start xdm with -nodaemon option (in Xdm).
- * write in /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession your favoutite startup applications
- or use ~/.xsession for every user.
-
- That's all (at least for me).
-
- Norbert Zimmermann
- Institute of Organic Chemistry
- University of Tuebingen
- Germany
-