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Date:      Wed, 22 Nov 1995 08:44:05 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM>
To:        Peter Marelas <maral@webnet.com.au>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UCONSOLE
Message-ID:  <Pine.3.89.9511220811.E9375-0100000@kryten.atinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951123003327.20947A-100000@iis>

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On Thu, 23 Nov 1995, Peter Marelas wrote:
> 
> I thought the following option was used for "ordinary" users to be able 
> to grab the console.
> 
> options         UCONSOLE                #Allow users to grab the console
> 
> But xconsole still doesnt work for ordinary users.

here is the line in .xsession i use for starting xconsole:

xconsole -geometry 933+1-0 -daemon -notify -verbose -fn fixed -exitOnFail &

Aspen:[9] ls -Flag /dev/console
crw--w--w-  1 root  wheel    0,   0 Nov 22 08:17 /dev/console   
		(while not running X)

check your /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm directory and files as well 
(GiveConsole and TakeConsole  in particular)

Aspen:[13] ls -Flag
total 37
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    512 Nov 22 06:49 ./
drwxr-xr-x  17 bin   bin      512 May 30 20:21 ../
-rw-------   1 root  wheel     44 Nov 22 06:49 A:0-000110
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    390 Jan 28  1995 GiveConsole*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    249 Jan 28  1995 TakeConsole*
-r--r--r--   1 root  wheel   1976 Jan 28  1995 Xaccess
-r--r--r--   1 root  wheel   1047 Jan 28  1995 Xresources
-r--r--r--   1 root  wheel    499 Sep 17 13:31 Xservers
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    639 Jan 28  1995 Xsession*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    150 Jan 28  1995 Xsetup_0*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  20480 Jan 28  1995 chooser*
-r--r--r--   1 root  wheel    722 Jan 28  1995 xdm-config
-rw-rw-r--   1 root  wheel   2710 Nov 22 06:50 xdm-errors
-rw-rw-r--   1 root  wheel      6 Nov 16 22:51 xdm-pid

from xdm-config:

DisplayManager._0.startup:      /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole
DisplayManager._0.reset:        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/TakeConsole



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