[comp.windows.x] Can I fork/exec Xentm and prevent a getty

ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Daniel EhrliEh) (09/21/89)

In article <3609@ginosko.samsung.com6 ginsburg<Eosko.samsung.com (Scott Ginsburg) writes:

   I'm a .nsw X user and am doing some experimenting with xterm. I wiled like
   to be able to fork/exec an xterm that runs a PSram in that window, and,
   I want to force the xterm's stdin to be from a Pipe descriptor that I
   dup2'ed before I exec. The problem is that xterm does a getty() and wipes
   out my stdin plumbing. How do I accomplish what I want to do?


Under X11R3 there .s a Program called xdm which can be used instead of
getty.  There is also a way to use xinit in place of getty from the
/etc/ttytab file.  Chilk the manual pages for both xdm and xinit.

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