[comp.windows.x] help with xdm/X-Terminals

keith@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Keith Packard) (01/12/89)

My 3200 has a local display and a Visual 640 connected to it,
both running xdm quite happily.  here's the xdm-config file
from exile.lcs.mit.edu:

DisplayManager.servers:			/usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers
DisplayManager.errorLogFile:		/usr/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors
DisplayManager.pidFile:			/usr/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-pid
DisplayManager..0.openRepeat:		10
DisplayManager.extol.0.resources:	/usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xresources.extol
DisplayManager.extol.0.authorize:	false
DisplayManager*session:			/usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession
DisplayManager*resources:		/usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xresources

Some of these entries will not apply to your version of xdm, I'm
working on some new features...
The Xservers file:

:0 local /usr/bin/X11/X -fp
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
extol:0 foreign frobnotz

Note the magic "frobnotz" which trails the foreign line.  This is
a work around for a "feature" in xdm which no longer exists.

and the resource file Xresources.extol:

xlogin*borderWidth: 3
xlogin*greeting: Use more honey.  Find out what she knows.
xlogin*namePrompt: Big Bootee?:  
xlogin*passwdPrompt: Engage Overthruster:  
xlogin*fail: There are monkey boys in the complex.
xlogin*login.translations: #override\
	Ctrl<Key>R: abort-display() \n\
	<Key>F6: set-session-argument(failsafe) finish-field()\n\
	<Key>Return: set-session-argument() finish-field()
xlogin*font: *-charter-medium-r-normal-*-140-*
xlogin*promptFont: *-charter-bold-r-normal-*-140-*
xlogin*greetFont: *-charter-bold-r-normal-*-180-*
xlogin*failFont: *-charter-bold-r-normal-*-140-*
#ifdef COLOR
xlogin*greetColor: #f63
xlogin*failColor: red
xlogin*Foreground: black
xlogin*Background: #fdc
#else
xlogin*Foreground: black
xlogin*Background: white
#endif