> There have been discussions about the xdm entry /etc/ttys does not guarantee
> the X server being started on the particular vty. So I wrote a shell script
> to explicitly tell xdm to start X server on a specific vty.
I *like* it. I think you should share it with the XFree86 folks, and I
think this would be great to have in the base installation (after proper
testing of course...).
However, does this work with non-XFree86 X servers? (Or, maybe you
can't test that...)
Nate
It's been working
> great. I'd like to share it with you, maybe we could include it in the base
> system. Here's the script (I call it xdmstart), it's very simple,
>
> #!/bin/sh
> case $1 in
> ttyv*)
> vt=vt`expr $1 : 'ttyv\(.*\)' + 1`;;
> *) vt=;;
> esac
> exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon -server ":0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 $vt"
>
> and in /etc/ttys replace the xdm line with
> ttyv3 "/usr/local/bin/xdmstart" xterm on secure
>
> There's one thing should be noted, the vtxx option isn't a standard X server
> option, but both XFree86 and Xig support it, so majority of the people should
> be covered.
>
> -lq
>
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