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From: datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Help: XDM problems
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Date: 8 May 91 21:22:08 GMT
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>Which are all my BIG errors?

IMHO, the biggest error you're making is using xdm at all.  If I'm
logging into a machine other than my own, chances are that I don't *want*
a full X session.  Often enough, I'm trying to debug some problem that
would prevent that session from coming up at all.  Worse yet, if I don't
maintain a .xsession file across every machine in creation, I get stuck
with whatever defaults the machine has, which could be something egregious
like mwm.

On a workstation, it's easy enough to log in and type "xinit".  On
an X terminal, it's easy enough to log in through the telnet session
and type ".xsession".

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