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From: kit@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X.V11R3 and xdm
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Date: 7 Feb 89 23:19:04 GMT
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> Concerning an xdm console, Chris Peterson says:
> >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.

> Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see how Xstartup solves the
> problem...

[discussion of problem deleted]

You are absolutely right, this piece of functionality is not provided.
Keith and I have talked about this and it looks like the right thing
to do here is to add another script that xdm execs.

Thanks for the comments, and rest assured that we are looking into
the problem.

						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium /
						Project Athena 

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