XDM setup, revisited

Once again, after several months away from the problem, I am
trying to customize my XDM login based on Hauke's
documentation.  For the life of me, I cannot get it to
work!

I have all files in the right places.  I have permissions
right.  The only changes I've made are for details like
color and font sizes.  (Hauke's Q700 has a much bigger
screen than my Color Classic.)  Those shouldn't matter.

It simply doesn't use /etc/X11/Xresources at all.  No, it's
not using /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xresources either.  I get
the default "X Window System" greeting, while both
those files contain CLIENTHOST in xlogin*greeting.

(BTW, I assume CLIENTHOST is a magic word because I don't
see where it is set.)

Any ideas at all?

Thanks,
Tim
-- 
Tim & Alethea

At 14:33 Uhr -0500 22.2.2007, <thelarsons3cox.net> wrote:
>Once again, after several months away from the problem,
I am trying to
>customize my XDM login based on Hauke's documentation. 
For the life of
>me, I cannot get it to work!
>
>I have all files in the right places.  I have
permissions right.  The only
>changes I've made are for details like color and font
sizes.  (Hauke's
>Q700 has a much bigger screen than my Color Classic.) 
Those shouldn't
>matter.
>
>It simply doesn't use /etc/X11/Xresources at all.

No, it doesn't:

[haukefattie] /<1>X11/xdm > fgrep -i xresources
xdm-config
DisplayManager*resources:       /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources
[haukefattie] /<1>X11/xdm >

-- xdm(1) has its own Xresources file, different from the
global one.

>  No, it's not using
>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xresources either.

What does your /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config say?

At 17:00 Uhr -0500 6.3.2007, <thelarsons3cox.net> wrote:
>Hauke's document states that Xresources is processed by
cpp.  I noticed an
>error from cpp in my xsession-errors file, about
"cannot exec 'cc1'".  I
>have cc1 in /usr/libexec, but maybe it's not being
found?  This would
>explain why everything seems to be working except for
ignoring Xresources.

Well, cpp has no business calling cc1 whatsoever, since it's
onla y
preprocessor. I'd expect cc1 is called from cc which is only
a wrapper. You
could change the first line of /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession to

#!/bin/sh -X

to get a script execution trace.

	hauke

--
"It's never straight up and down"     (DEVO)

At 23:12 Uhr +0100 7.3.2007, Hauke Fath wrote:
> You could change the first line of
/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession to
>
>#!/bin/sh -X

Erm, make that

#!/bin/sh -x

...

>to get a script execution trace.

	hauke

--
"It's never straight up and down"     (DEVO)