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Date: 31 May 90 16:17:36 GMT
From: convex!epb2.lbl.gov!envbvs  (Brian V. Smith)
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Subject: Re: console message and XDM
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In article <17880@ultima.cs.uts.oz>, keane@ultima.cs.uts.oz (Chris
Keane) writes:
|> jsparkes@bcars85.bnr.ca (Jeff Sparkes) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> >	Are there any plans to add a console window to XDM?  At present,
|> >when the login prompter is up on the console, all messages go directly to
|> >the console, messing up the screen.  There isn't even any way to redraw the
|> >screen (that I can find).
|> 
|> Yes, I hated that for a while too and I got sick of students
complaining and/or
|> asking me what was wrong, so I've hacked xdm to have a console window
at the 
|> bottom of the screen. It basically starts a program that runs as a
pseudotty and
|> displays everything the comes over the pty on a
nice-even-if-I-say-so-myself 
|> scrolling, wrap-around window. The window doesn't recognise any input-type 
|> events. Xdm hijacks the console output using ioctl() and stuffs it into the
|> the other end of the pty. Voila! Instant console!
|> 
|> It's been tested and runs quite successfully on Sun3's, Sun386i's and
SunSS1's
|> all running SunOS 4.0.3. It works for both X11r3 and X11r4.
|> The diffs are very small. If you're interested, I send them to you, although
|> I believe the ioctl() to steal the console is rather system-dependant
(I don't
|> know that for sure though), so if you're not running suns...
|> regards...

Our mailer can't reach Chris' host so I am posting this request.
Would you mail me the diffs to xdm to do this or post them if they
aren't too large?

Thanks.
_____________________________________
Brian V. Smith    (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
I don't speak for LBL, these non-opinions are all mine.