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From: gdykes@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Gene Dykes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: X server and the X0screens file
Message-ID: <9914@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 90 16:08:30 GMT
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Organization: Theory Center, Cornell U., Ithaca NY
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Just in case this has been overlooked over at HP, let me register this plea:

PLEASE make sure that the new R4 server can have the information that is
contained in /usr/lib/X11/Xnscreens be set by a command line option.
It really makes life difficult to have those filenames hardwired.

Just in case it is not obvious why, here is the reason:

Sometimes I want to put X in the overlay planes and sometimes I want it
to be in the graphics planes.  The only way to accomplish this is to
change the contents of those files.  The only way to accomplish that
while logging in is to make those files writable and to copy a file with
the appropriate information on top of it.  Add in the fact that many
people want to log in to the same machines and have different login
procedures and you have an awful mess.

Thank you.
-- 
Gene Dykes, gdykes@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu