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From: valdis@alchemy.mcs.clarkson.edu (& Kletnieks)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Problems with 'xrdb' & 'xdm'?
Message-ID: <VALDIS.88Nov23135217@alchemy.mcs.clarkson.edu>
Date: 23 Nov 88 18:52:17 GMT
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Anybody have any flames/suggestions/hints for the following? (I'll even
settle for an 'rtfm' if you point which one I should have read...)

Scenario:

Sun 3/260, hi-res monochrome screen, running SunOS 4.0, and
X11R3 (patches 1-2 and Purdue speedups).

1) 'xrdb -query' only outputs ONE line.  While debugging the following
problems, I was forced to do: 'xrdb -edit xyzz;cat xyzzy;rm xyzzy' to
see what I had set.

2) 'xdm', contrary to the 'man' page, doesn't want to read 
/usr/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config by default, I had to give a '-config'
pointing there to make it work.

3) I am using the 'sample' Xsession script out of the 'xdm' man page.
I find that the .xsession script should NOT exit until the user is done,
or 'xdm' closes everything down.  The solution I used was to make the
last line of the .xession script an 'exec xterm' line.  The problem here is
that THIS instance of 'xterm' doesn't find the font I specify, or get a 
scrollbar, or anything else I gave in .Xresources.  The OTHER 3 xterms
find all the stuff just fine.

(here is the .Xresources I used):
xterm*vt100*font:	8x13
xterm*vt100*borderWidth:	2
xterm*vt100*jumpScroll:	on
xterm*vt100*multiScroll:	on
xterm*vt100*saveLines:	255
xterm*vt100*scrollBar:	on
xterm*vt100*statusLine:	on
xman**topBox: false
xman*manualBrowser.geometry: 800x1020+100+100
xman.IconGeometry: 30x30-160+4
xmh*CompGeometry: 500x660

(Here is the .xsession I used):
#!/bin/csh
xrdb -load ~/.Xresources
xhost +sun.mcs
xhost +sun.soe
xhost +alliant.soe
twm &
rsh sun.mcs -n "exeqt xterm -display `hostname | sed 's/\.clarkson\.edu//'`:0.0 -geometry 80x24+680+0  -n sun.mcs" &
xterm -geometry 80x68+0-0 -n "    Work 1   " &
xterm -geometry 80x68+680-0 -n "    Work 2   " &
xclock -geometry 120x120-0+0 &
/usr/local/Gnu/bin/emacs -w =80x68+200+200 -font 8x13 -b 3 -i &
xbiff -geometry -160+0 &
xmh -geometry 660x700-0-0 &
exec xterm -C -geometry 80x24+0+0 -name login

4) Has anybody hacked 'xperfmon' to support SunOS 4.0 and the -lkvm routines?

				Valdis Kletnieks
				Sr. Systems Programmer
				Clarkson University