Using xdm and twm on freebsd 6.2

[John L. Utz III]

Heh;

this was a real hair puller for me at one point.

xdm uses it's own init stuff.

in the xfree86 days i ran into a problem where i would get fvwm if i  
did startx (that was what i wanted) and twm if i did xdm :-)

i suspect that in xorg the default xdm init isnt shipped anymore.

i would google for twm xdm and xfree86 and you might find a copy of  
the xdm init stuff that was in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/{xinit or xdm}  
(cant recall which)

HTH

johnu

On Apr 5, 2007, at 8:56 AM, Jim Seymour wrote:

> As simple as this seems to be I cannot get xdm and twm to play  
> together.
> What I would like to be able to do is log in using xdm and have the  
> same
> end result as if I had logged in from a text console and issued
> "startx".
>
> When I log in via a text console and issue "startx", I get the window
> arrangement I set in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc. This is the end
> result I am trying to reach. The only difference being using xdm to  
> log
> in instead of text console.
>
> The xsession-errors file is empty and I have tried .xinitrc
> and .xsession files to no avail. The only option I see after  
> logging in
> via xdm is Failsafe/Default and this loads a blank, useless screen or
> the screen goes blank and reloads the login page again. Using  
> Google and
> man pages, I have not been able to find an answer.
>
> This is on an old Compaq Armada 7750MT laptop with 64mb ram and a
> Pentium 166.
>
> Thanks for any and all help/advise,
> -- 
> Jim Seymour <jim at wingbarscafe.com>