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From: carson@tron.UUCP (Dana Carson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: what am I doing wrong with xdm
Keywords: xdm, decwindows, multiple demons
Message-ID: <646@tron.UUCP>
Date: 21 Sep 90 22:09:15 GMT
Organization: Westinghouse Electronic Systems Group, Baltimore, MD, USA
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   I am trying to use xdm instead of the DEC session manager as my X
startup.  It looks good at first but after logging in and logging out
I get two login boxes!  I fiddled with it for a while and have tried
using the simplest possible xdm configuration files I can thing of and
it's still happening.

   It looks like it starts going wrong right away since I tried
rebooting my workstation and a ps-ax | grep xdm from a dumb terminal 
without ever logging in as an X user gives three xdms running.

   After a login, logout cycle I have three but two of them have new
PIDs.  I get a normal login box.  Another cycle and I get two login
boxes that want me to click to place (I'm using uwm).  A ps shows four
xdms running.  The PIDs are different for four of them.
	example
	first time before login
	PIDs 83, 86, 110
	after login logout
	PIDs 83, x, y
	after next login logout
	PIDs 83, 1043, 1046, 1050

  I am using DECwindows X not MIT X.

  Any answers, questions, suggestions?

  Thanks in advance.

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Dana Carson
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