Re: XWindows Login Screen

["Carlo U. Segre" <segre@charlie.cns.iit.edu>]

On Thu, 12 Dec 1996 edwalter@usa.net wrote:

> 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.
> 

Unfortunately, this did not solve the problem for me.  Maybe I didn't
follow the instructions correctly.  The script file I put in xrdb is:

#! /bin/sh
/usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb.bin -nocpp

I still do not get the proper login screen.  Maybe a bug report is in
order?

Cheers,

Carlo


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