On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Paul Thompson wrote:

> It doesn't matter which window manager I use. The ~/.xession which I have 
> is:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> xterm &
> exec fvwm2
> 
> *or*
> 
> exec twm

When I was running twm/xsm, I would use "exec xsm". "twm" just
decorates--it can't be a session leader.

Can you telnet in after xdm fails and see what's in
~/.xsession-errors?

> In fact, I've noticed that even if you dont log onto the console it goes 
> black for a second or two, like its going to sleep, even though the 5 
> minutes is not up :-) then it starts again. If I do a ps -ax on the the 
> processes, I notice that xdm is running twice.

I don't understand. When does the screen go blank? Every two minutes?
xdm spawns a process for each Xserver, so that much is normal.