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From: mike@ap542.uucp (Mike Hoffmann)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Behavior of xdm in rel 3 and rel 4 and Xterminals
Keywords: turning Xterms on/off, reloading of Server
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.152633.14240@ap542.uucp>
Date: 22 Apr 91 15:26:33 GMT
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Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG, AP 712
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Hi!

Our Xterminals use host-loadable servers. Most of the time it's desirable to
turn them off after office hours.

When turning them back on and reloding the server you then got two effects,
depending on which release of X you used:

11.3: xdm kept retrying to find the Xterm to bring up the XLogin screen,
this made the xdm-errors file pretty big pretty fast

11.4: xdm gives up after a while (after reaching it's max # of retries, set
in the xdm resources), thus you have to send xdm a SIGHUP from somewhere
to get it to re-sync.

Is there a work-around? A "best-of-both-worlds"?

Mike
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