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Re: Running more than 1 xdm

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Taylor)
Mon Nov 23 19:47:53 1998

From: Bob Taylor <brtaylor@inreach.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Nov 1998 16:04:34 CST."
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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 16:30:48 -0800
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In message <Pine.SUN.3.95.981123155923.890B-100000@sc10.rsc.raytheon.com>, Terr
ance L Eck writes:

[snip]

> Thank to Bob Taylor (and the latest Linux Journal) I've got xdm setup
> to run in 16bit and 8bit modes. I've looked at xbanner to try and find
> out where the title (Linux!) is defined but cannot determine where this
> information is defined. I'd like to customize the two xdm displays.
> Can anyone point me to where the xbanner program gets its information
> on a Red Hat 5.1 system and some hints on customizing two different xdm
> displays.

Look in /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources for the line "xlogin*greeting: CLIENTHOST".
Change CLIENTHOST to whatever.

Bob


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