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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Problems with 'xrdb' & 'xdm'?
Message-ID: <8811232106.AA05454@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Date: 23 Nov 88 21:06:03 GMT
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    1) 'xrdb -query' only outputs ONE line.

We certainly haven't seen this behaviour here.

    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.

It works just fine on the Sun I'm sitting here typing at.
You might want to try running xdm with -debug 99 and look
at the output (and the xdm-errors file) to see what it says.

    I find that the .xsession script should NOT exit until the user is done,
    or 'xdm' closes everything down.

Right.  Sorry if this wasn't clear.

    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.

Right, because you specified "-name login", which changes the name
under which resources get fetched.  Perhaps you wanted -n instead,
or perhaps -title.