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From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey)
Subject: Re: X dropping characters when usin xdm
In-Reply-To: root@wanderer.nsi.nasa.gov's message of Wed, 7 Jul 1993 12:17:17 GMT
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Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1993 03:08:35 GMT
>>>>> In article <1993Jul7.121717.24764@news.arc.nasa.gov>, root@wanderer.nsi.nasa.gov (Michael C. Newell) writes:
> You do mean that it should be in the X FAQ, right?
Michael> Why not the X section of the 386BSD FAQ? It's asked an AWFUL
Michael> lot; the text could be
Michael> x.x.x When I run xdm from the console, it keeps losing keystrokes
Michael> and the shift keys don't always work. Why?
Michael> You need to run xdm with the -nodaemon flag. The reason is
Michael> xdm normally detaches from the keyboard. This allows other
Michael> processes (like getty) to return to reading from the keyboard.
Michael> A race condition results, where some keystrokes are sent to
Michael> xdm and others are sent to other processes. Using the
Michael> -nodaemon flag causes xdm to stay attached to the keyboard
Michael> so no other process can use it.
It's already in README.386BSD:
...
Or you can run the X display manager (xdm). Root can invokes `xdm
-nodaemon' on the console to start the display manager. If you would
rather run xdm on bootup, and add code like the following to your
/etc/rc.local script. (If you are using the pccons driver, you must also
disable logins on the console by removing `vga' from /etc/ttys.)
if [ -x /usr/X386/bin/xdm ]; then
echo -n ' xdm'; /usr/X386/bin/xdm
fi
I think that covers it. Let us know if there is something else we
need to cover in the readme... Rich