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From: keith@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Keith Packard)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xdm and NCD X-terminal
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Date: 21 Aug 89 23:19:41 GMT
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> I am using a NCD X-terminal to connect to a sun.  I also have xdm running
> as a "front-end".  Everything is fine if I login and logout normally.
> However, say if I switch off the X terminal and then back on, xdm fails
> to provide me with a login prompt.  I have to logon to the sun thru a 
> conventional serial terminal and do a "kill -HUP xdmpid" before everything
> goes to normal.

Xdm doesn't ever find out that the terminal has been turned back on; so it
never prompts for login again.  The X consortium is working on the
X Display Manager Protocol which will allow the terminal some means of
telling xdm about what happened.  So, until that becomes availible, I
suggest leaving the X terminal on all of the time, unless you like to
go through the hassle described.

Keith Packard
MIT X Consortium