According to John A. Maier:
>
>I had a gut feeling that the PCVT stuff wasn't happy with having a X   
>server started from a non-login terminal.
>

No, your guts are wrong on this.  PCVT works fine like that when I was
using xdm with PCVT.

>I like most of you have become spoiled by pcvt's ability to Ctrl+Alt+Fn   
>to other virtural consoles. Remember to Ctrl+Alt+BackSpace out of X so   
>you can get a local login prompt to shutdown nicely.
>

If you are using xdm then remember ctrl+r which kills the xdm login
all together - it does not kill xdm though so you need to kill that
before restarting xdm.  This is good for debugging your xdm start up.

>For those who don't understand what I an trying to accomplish...
>I am starting X with the -query switch.  This allows X to query a xdm   
>server and get a xdm login prompt.  Efectivly I have turned a fleet of   
>486-80Mhz with 8-12Megs of RAM into X terminals!!!
>

Whee - network booting and all? :-)

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, British Aerospace Australia
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