fnddr@acad3.alaska.edu (Rice Don D) (01/05/91)
This is hopefully not difficult, but I've just got X11R4 going and I'm still wading through its documentation. We want to set up some basic X terminals (Visual 14/ES) for student use. They would use twm or whatever seems appropriate. However, we don't want to dump DECwindows on the console because Display PostScript gets a lot of use. So, I would like to leave the console as is in /etc/ttys and still be able to use xdm for the X terminals. The xdm doc notes that it doesn't coexist with other session managers very well, so I thought I'd ask for solutions before investing a lot of time trying to make it work. Any solutions or pointers to relevant documents would be appreciated. Thanks, Don Rice Internet: fnddr@acad3.fai.alaska.edu Geophysical Institute E-mail: fnddr@alaska.bitnet University of Alaska Phone: (907) 474-7569 Fairbanks, AK 99775 Loran: 64.86N 212.16E
mike@denali.uss.tek.com (Michael Ewan) (01/06/91)
In article <1991Jan4.185103.17400@ims.alaska.edu> fnddr@acad3.alaska.edu writes: >We want to set up some basic X terminals (Visual 14/ES) for student use. >They would use twm or whatever seems appropriate. However, we don't want >to dump DECwindows on the console because Display PostScript gets a lot of >use. So, I would like to leave the console as is in /etc/ttys and still be >able to use xdm for the X terminals. The xdm doc notes that it doesn't >coexist with other session managers very well, so I thought I'd ask for >solutions before investing a lot of time trying to make it work. No problem. Leave /etc/ttys alone. Make the appropriate entries in /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers for the X-terminals. Start xdm from /etc/rc. If you don't make a 'local' entry in the Xservers file then xdm won't even know about the console. Check the man page for Xdm(1) for the syntax for Xservers and the other config files. Mike -- Michael Ewan (503)627-6468 Internet: mike@raven.USS.TEK.COM Unix Systems Support UUCP: ...!tektronix!puffin!raven!mike Tektronix, Inc. Compuserve: 73747,2304 "Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec."--J. Hart