Hey Simon- Just joined this group! Funny to see an email from you. I posted positions with Omar - we'll see if anything shakes loose. Also, is there a GENERAL employment posting mechanism at UT? thx, dick gintz/airlink [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Simon Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, November 09, 1998 9:36 AM Subject: Re: XDM >Hi Justin, > >Personally, I prefer to use runlevel 3, and then add > > startx > logout > >either to the default .bash_profile or an individual user's .bash_profile. >If your user will be telneting in, you will have to put in a test to not do >this unless they are on an X console. Users who want to have the option >of command line can comment these lines out. If you are running RedHat 5+, >the file /home/.wm_style determines which wm is invoked. I have a modified >version of /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients which recognizes all the usual ones, plus >KDE, enlightenment, and xfce. You can pick it up at: > > ftp://horus.util.utexas.edu/pub/ > >Simon > > >On Sun, 08 Nov 1998, Justin Georgeson wrote: >>I'm starting to play with xdm to have my box bot into run level 5 (X11) >>so that my non-unix roomies don't have to agonize over remembering to >>type "startx" after they log in. Anyhow I've removed all the window >>managers expect twm, AfterStep, and KDE. I can't figure out how to >>configure xdm to load either one of these. What would be nice is to use >>KDM so I can choose AfterStep, KDE, or a command line. Anyone know how >>to do this, I tried sifting through the xdm man page but that didn't >>help. Thanks. >> >>-- >>__________________________________________________ >> Justin Georgeson >> Institute for Advanced Technology -- System Administrator >> University of Texas at Austin -- Dept. of Computer Science >> http://sark.dyn.ml.org >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >>-------------------------------------------------------------------------- - >>Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >-- >=========================================================================== == >Simon Hill | Dept. of Utilities and Energy Mgt. >UNIX Systems Administrator | University of Texas at Austin > | >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Phone (512) 471-9429 >http://horus.util.utexas.edu/simon | Fax (512) 471-8883 >=========================================================================== == >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
