On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Daniel Senderowicz wrote:
> 	xconsole has to be run as root.
> 
> Any advantage of xconsole over xterm -C?

xconsole does not allow input and does not look like a
regular xterm. With xconsole you don't get the problem
where the error messages are written in the same window
which you are using for something else.

> 	> This was a disaster. The window came out nicely and when I enter
> 	> the username and passwd it blinked out, and came again prompting
> 	> me, and again and so on. I had to use de middle finger to reset
> 	> the machine! Is there anything that I forget to do?
> 	
> 	turn off screen blanking with 'xset s off' in the 
> 	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup file. ( I think that is the right file -
> 	can't check as the pmax is at home).
> 
> It wasn't only the problem of blanking but it just never logged
> in, although the password was correct. On the other hand, when I
> entered an incorrect password it said it, so somehow the thing
> stays in a loop or something. Thanks.

Hm. It sounds like there's a error somewhere in either
your shell startup scripts or the windowmanager scripts.

My Sun Sparc-1 used to do this when your .cshrc, .profile
or .zshrc did not set X11/bin in the path.
You'll have to use the appropriate X11 path of course.

Hope this helps!

> Cheers,
> 
> Dan

/^JN - Jesper Nilsson
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