[comp.windows.x] xdm, screen lock up problem -any solutions?

krishnav@faatcrl.UUCP (krishnav) (07/16/90)

Hi Folks,

    I was testing xdm for the first time and everytime I kill xdm the console gets locked up.  Thatis, every time I try to login th it would do nothing but scroll up.  I couldn't type anything.  Is there any solution to this?  Also how can I kill xdm from x11 (we are running X11R3)

Thanks in advance

-Krishna

converse@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (07/16/90)

>     I was testing xdm for the first time and everytime I kill xdm the 
> console gets locked up.  Thatis, every time I try to login th it would do
> nothing but scroll up.  I couldn't type anything.  Is there any solution 
> to this? 

You don't say what machine you are using.  On a DECstation3100, I have to
type Control-Q in order to have keyboard input reach the console login prompt
after killing xdm.

> Also how can I kill xdm from x11 (we are running X11R3)

Read the xdm man page.  In R4 you can create a binding to the abort-display
action.  I don't know whether that action exists in the R3 version of xdm.


Donna Converse
converse@expo.lcs.mit.edu