Subject: Re: Need X help on NetBSD/{pmax,alpha}
To: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
From: David Burren <davidb@osa.com.au>
List: port-alpha
Date: 07/22/1999 11:42:30
David Burren wrote:

> I think your fundamental problem is that if you start X from within xdm,
> xdm expects to be controlling it.

This is what I get for rushing mail out.  I meant to add:

	If you start X with -query/-indirect/-broadcast it expects to have
	some control over its own destiny.  This does not strike me as
	compatible.

> I haven't tried that myself, but I
> would expect that it would get "upset" at some point...
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David B.