Re: The clever people get a red smartie

2000-06-01 Thread Brad
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 10:06:53AM +1000, Jordan Howarth wrote:
 
[SNIP]
 xdm never reads Xresources
[SNIP]

I'm not clear on whether this is causing your problem, but the bug
(#64943) looks to be fixed in the next update to xfree86-common

 xdm upgrade, and it seems like an arbitrary hack that only solves the
 symptom (or is that the true definition of a hack?)

One of many, i believe ;)


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The clever people get a red smartie

2000-05-31 Thread Jordan Howarth

Hey xdm expert, why does xdm not work with authorisation true?

I have had this problem since a recent upgrade of xdm, namely xrdb and xmodmap
cannot get authorisation to run, xdm never reads Xresources, Xsetup, etc. and 
so I
never get my old login window and neither can I login to my X session (it
momentarily hangs with blank screen after I enter my password and then returns 
to
a refreshed login window). 

If in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config, I set

DisplayManager._0.authorize:false

rather than true, then no problem. However, this was not the case before the
xdm upgrade, and it seems like an arbitrary hack that only solves the symptom 
(or
is that the true definition of a hack?)


Jord

P.S. For those who live where it gets cold in the north, a smartie is the
Australian equivalent to an mm.