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From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: xdm
To: jcs@owl.dhi.dk (Juan Savioli)
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 18:58:34 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <96Aug7.145611gmt.39682@gateway.dhi.dk> from Juan Savioli at "Aug 7, 96 03:07:50 pm"
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> 
> Hi, 
> 
> is it possible that anybody could give me some hints of how to 
> customize xdm. I mean which files I should initialize as for 
> example the xstart and all those. If it is too much work it is 
> fine if I get a home page where I can take a look.

How far have you got? Are you able to run /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
successfully and do you get a X setup you are satisfied with?
If so then just copy the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc or
your .xinitrc (if you have one) to your $HOME/.xsession and make
it executable (chmod 755 .xsession). Then run by hand
/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -daemon

If logging in and such all works put that line in /etc/rc.local
That's all there is to it.  The file $HOME/.xsession-errors
is a good location to look for possible errors.
If you mean other special things like starting a Chooser, maintaining
other servers etc. consult a book on X, e.g. X Windows System User's
guide (O'Reilly) and/or peek at the files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Juan  
> 
> --
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--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de