Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!samsung!umich!yale!mintaka!bloom-beacon!BANRUC01.BITNET!pive From: pive@BANRUC01.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: xdm and /dev/console windows.... Message-ID: Date: 3 Aug 90 11:58:31 GMT References: <15752@s.ms.uky.edu> Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background) Reply-To: Organization: The Internet Lines: 19 In the andrew contribution is program called console, which takes over /dev/console and some other usefull gadgets (a biff icon, cpu load, clock, ....), but this works only when a user is working on the screen, not when xdm shows his login prompt. P. Verhaeghe University of Antwerp, RUCA Algebra / Geometry Groenenborgerlaan 171 B-2020 Antwerpen, Belgium Tel: +32 3 2180308 Fax: +32 3 2180217 Telex: RUCABI 33362 E-mail: pive@banruc01.bitnet (or pive@ccu.uia.ac.be)