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From: mike@denali.uss.tek.com (Michael Ewan)
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Subject: Re: Using X terminals with DECstations
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Date: 5 Jan 91 21:45:32 GMT
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In article <1991Jan4.185103.17400@ims.alaska.edu> fnddr@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
>We want to set up some basic X terminals (Visual 14/ES) for student use.
>They would use twm or whatever seems appropriate.  However, we don't want
>to dump DECwindows on the console because Display PostScript gets a lot of
>use.  So, I would like to leave the console as is in /etc/ttys and still be
>able to use xdm for the X terminals.  The xdm doc notes that it doesn't
>coexist with other session managers very well, so I thought I'd ask for
>solutions before investing a lot of time trying to make it work.

No problem.  Leave /etc/ttys alone.  Make the appropriate entries in
/usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers for the X-terminals.  Start xdm from /etc/rc.
If you don't make a 'local' entry in the Xservers file then xdm won't
even know about the console.  Check the man page for Xdm(1) for the
syntax for Xservers and the other config files.

Mike
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