keyboard behaviour with cygwin/xfree86

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Frank Meier wrote:

> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alexander Gottwald
> > [ mailto:alexander.gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de ]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 5:31 PM
> > Cc: meier@ieh.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de; cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: AW: AW: keyboard behaviour with cygwin/xfree86
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Frank Meier wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Dear Alexander,
> > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > According to my survey, Xsetup is not executed!
> > > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Can you send me your xdm-config please? I never saw a system, 
> > > > > where Xsetup is 
> > > > > not used when using xdmcp.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Here they are.  Please let me know, if You need more. 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Strange configuration.
> > > Please add 
> > > DisplayManager*setup:        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup
> > 
> > oops. Typo
> > 
> > DisplayManager.*.setup:      /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup
> 
> 
> No improvement.
> 
> What process/program starts xdm?  After executing startxwin:
> 
> $ ps -ef
>      UID     PID    PPID TTY     STIME COMMAND
>   fmeier     411       1 con  10:29:35 /usr/bin/bash
>   fmeier     356       1 con  10:29:40 /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin
>   fmeier     251       1 con  10:29:40 /usr/X11R6/bin/twm
>   fmeier     177     411 con  10:29:48 /usr/bin/ps
> 
> There is no xdm.  When is start xdm manually, it complain not being
> run by root.
> 
> $ xdm
> Only root wants to run xdm
> 
xdm must be started by root since it is the login program. If you can't get
root access on the machine, you will have to start xwin and then telnet
to the remote host and start the session manually 
(for bash: export DISPLAY=winhost:0.0; ~/.xinitrc)

bye
    ago

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