Re: Behaviour change in Xorg's xdm between 5.99.5 and 5.99.7

["S.P.Zeidler" <spz%serpens.de@localhost>]

Hi,

paul%whooppee.com@localhost (Paul Goyette) writes:

>I just installed 5.99.7 (including Xorg) built from yesterday's sources, 
>and noticed something a little odd:

>The xdm login widget displays ONLY the "Login:" field, until after an 
>entry is made in that field and the Enter/Return key is pressed.  Only 
>after pressing Enter is the "Password:" field displayed.  On my other 
>5.99.5 systems buit from 2008-12-13 sources, both fields are displayed 
>right from the beginning.

Try compiling xdm with USE_PAM=NO, it'll probably revert to the old
behaviour.

>Also noticed that Xorg's xdm doesn't display the NetBSD logo.  I no 
>longer have a Xfree system available, but I could swear that xdm used to 
>display that cute little devil carrying the NetBSD banner.  :)

I'm innocent of that (I think :)

regards,
        spz
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