From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 26 20:26:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA01400 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 20:26:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line4.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA01394 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 20:26:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA04369; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 20:26:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 20:26:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Mike Jeays cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Chooser In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Mike Jeays wrote: > Thanks to another subscriber, I now have xdm working properly, > except that I cannot make the chooser work. I know that there > are at least two other machines visible on our internal network, > but all I get is the standard login screen from xdm for my own > machine. I think I have failed to understand something quite > basic, and would appreciate any tips. I have tried several > options in Xservers and Xaccess, but they don't seem to make > any difference. The xdm Chooser is pretty, well choosy :) The way to go is to run the X server with the -indirect flag, or something like that. Poke around the questions mail archives, it was asked & answered some time ago. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo