Re: XWindows Login Screen
On 12 Dec 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
> "Carlo U. Segre" <segre@charlie.cns.iit.edu> writes:
>
> > Indeed, that is what I meant above by saying that the configuration files
> > seem OK. Both the Xresources files have valid entries in them for the
> > 'greetColor' (CadetBlue) and 'greeting' (Debian Linux (CLIENTHOST)).
> > Clearly the configuration files are not the problem but something else
> > must be set improperly.
>
> I have the same problem here, so you're not alone. The files are fine,
> but xdm appears to ignore them...
>
The problem is that xdm uses xrdb to read these configuration files
in. xrdb has been broken for a while. It crashes if run with no
options. My solution was to mv xrdb to xrdb.bin and create a shell
script named xrdb that run xrdb.bin with the -nocpp option.
Erv
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