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From: envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: what am I doing wrong with xdm
Keywords: xdm, decwindows, multiple demons
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Date: 21 Sep 90 23:38:54 GMT
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In article <646@tron.UUCP>, carson@tron.UUCP (Dana Carson) writes:
|> 
|>    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.

How are you starting xdm?  It should NOT be started by /etc/ttys, which
would start a new one everytime you log out.  Is should be started once
in, say /etc/rc.local and never again.

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Brian V. Smith    (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
I don't speak for LBL; they don't pay me enough for that.