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From: ekberg@ssd.dl.nec.COM (Tom Ekberg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Questions on xdm and X authority
Message-ID: <9106051420.AA22790@ssdss3.ssd.dl.nec.com>
Date: 5 Jun 91 14:20:16 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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 > Question 1:  If I start up X via xinit, I can specify server options, e.g.
 >              xinit -- -ar1 600
 >              to specify the autorepeat initiate interval for Xsun.
 >              Is there any way to do this, on a per-user basis, with xdm?

I can answer this one since I had to do it last week.  I got tired of deleting
the ddduplicate characters   :-(   I don't know why nobody fixes the problem
directly by changing the MIT X source code.  It is a simple 1 line change.
Perhaps I need to send in a bug report.

On our system, we have a directory /usr/lib/X11/xdm which contains some
interesting files.  One of them is Xservers which is the one I changed -- it
tells how to bring up the server.  The following is the only uncommented line
in my version of that file:

	:0 local /usr/bin/X11/X -ar1 500

  -- tom, ekberg@asl.dl.nec.com (x3503)