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From: kit@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
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Subject: Re: X.V11R3 and xdm
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Date: 7 Feb 89 00:44:10 GMT
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> Is there a way to do something sensible that can be done with console output
> *before* xterm kicks in (when xdm's "Welcome" window is on the screen)?

Since there is nowhere to output this information you will have to 
add something to the system's configuration that will allow you to view console
messages.  Perhaps an xterm -C that has its translations set to bind all key
presses to bell().  This would probabally do the trick but I make no claims
as to the security, or lack thereof, of this method.

The long and short of it is that you need to provide a method of displaying
this information, xdm will allow this to be done via the Xstartup file, but
you must provide the program that will actually accomplish the task.

						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium /
						Project Athena 

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