From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 28 12:10:20 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id MAA01440 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 12:10:20 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA01429 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 12:10:18 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA18274; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 09:19:40 -0800 Message-Id: <199502281719.JAA18274@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) cc: jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr, obrien@antares.aero.org, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Switching to another console VT from X In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Feb 1995 09:49:32 MST." <9502281649.AA07678@cs.weber.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 09:19:40 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> >> For some reason this doesn't work on my machine when I'm running XDM. >> >> Anyone have an idea why? >> > >> >Do you have your xdm doing a server grab or not? >> >> What do you mean by server grab? My xdm config is stock X11R6. > >Is it given options to do an XGrabInput()/XGrabKeyboard()/XGrabMouse() >such that all input goes to the xdm no matter what (for security >reasons)? > >Apparently this may no longer be an option (checking the sources). > >How about this: you said that if you run xdm it doesn't work. How >about if you don't run xdm -- does it still not work? Oh, it works fine then. I think it may only be while the login banner is up, but I'll have to check when I get into work. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@cs.weber.edu >--- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers. -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================