Xref: utzoo comp.windows.x:29451 comp.unix.sysv386:2120 Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!scocan!larryp From: larryp@sco.COM (Larry Philps) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: X windows on SCO Message-ID: <1990Nov13.142658.4831@sco.com> Date: 13 Nov 90 14:26:58 GMT References: Sender: news@sco.com (News administration) Organization: SCO Canada, Inc. (formerly HCR Corporation) Lines: 54 In article jsantos@bubba.ma30.bull.com (Jim Santos) writes: > >Hi, > I have a couple of questions for all you X windows experts out >there - especially those of you who are unlucky enough to be running >it under SCO 3.2 (like me). Sigh -- what a negative attitude :-) >1) In the man page for Xsight, it says that you can give it the >argument '-logo' to cause it to use a screen saver that displays the X >window icon at various palces on the screen. I do this by starting X >via the command 'startx -- X :0 -logo -p 5'. It has no effect (it still >blanks to black). But if I pass it a different argument, like '-save >12', that argument works. If I give it 'startx -- X :0 -logo -p -v >off', it blanks out my application windows but not my root window and begins >drawing X logos over my root window! Am I doing something wrong or is >there something wierd about the X server? I realize this isn't a very >urgent question, but it has made me curious. That manual page for Xsight states that -v defaults to on, and that this option overrides the -logo and -p options. Thus the correct syntax is startx -- X :0 -logo -p 5 -v off This works for me under Xsight 2.2.0, I don't know about older versions. >2) What does one need to do to use xdm under SCO? No matter what I do, I >still get the regular login banner. I read the man pages, I have the >configuration files in /usr/lib/X11/xdm and still zippo. I'm sure its >something basic that I am doing wrong, but since I am kind of new to >this... Did you disable the tty you were going to use for X? I am running xdm on tty01. First I disabled logins on tty01 by running # disable tty01 My /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers file contains # # server options set by xdm # :0 local /usr/bin/X11/X :0 -analog -crt /dev/tty01 and xdm works fine for me. --- Larry Philps, SCO Canada, Inc (Formerly: HCR Corporation) Postman: 130 Bloor St. West, 10th floor, Toronto, Ontario. M5S 1N5 InterNet: larryp@sco.COM or larryp%scocan@uunet.uu.net UUCP: {uunet,utcsri,sco}!scocan!larryp Phone: (416) 922-1937 Fax: (416) 922-8397