xcons murders the X server
Dirk Grunwald
grunwald at foobar.colorado.edu
Tue Oct 3 15:22:48 AEST 1989
In article <1880 at bacchus.dec.com> klee at gilroy.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee) writes:
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Date: 2 Oct 89 22:41:22 GMT
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In article <4327 at buengc.BU.EDU>, bph at buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
> A few hours after starting up the xcons (by putting the proper line
> in /etc/ttys and doing kill -HUP 1), the console-display's X server
> (Xqdsg) locks up.
Note that the xcons and xterm -L stuff will be removed from X11R4 by
MIT. At best, it's kind of flakey. Try using xdm or dxsession
instead.
Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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How does XDM solve the problem? It doesn't initiate a console-like
window, it only prompts for passwords & starts your .xsession.
dxsession, on the other hand, *does* capture console output; but w/o
source, there's no way to see how this is done. Right now, I use
all X11R3 tools except for dxsession, precisely because dxsession captures
all console output. Kind of stiff cost, though.
Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Colorado at Boulder (grunwald at foobar.colorado.edu)
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