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From: tim@anarch.ping.de (Tim Bernhardt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: xdm: chooser on several displays
Date: 7 Oct 1994 17:09:01 GMT
Organization: Wissenschaftsladen Dortmund/LogikFabrik
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Message-ID: <373vbd$9e7@anarch.ping.de>
Reply-To: tim@anarch.ping.de.de
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Hi!
We have two machines running FreeBSD and XFree86 (freebee and
beefree.ping.de). Is it possible to have a chooser running on each of
these machines offering login panels for both machines? What I am
trying to say is that I want a chooser on each display that lets me
click on either freebee or beefree and comes up with the selected
login panel. Thus, it doesn't matter at which machine I am sitting
because I can work on either one from my display. (Um, kinda complicated
to explain :)
I have seen this on three workstations with about twenty X-terminals
around. On each terminal I could select one of the three workstations
and got the login panel from there. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to
configure the xdm under XFree86 to do that for our configuration. So a
little explantions + examples would be highly appreciated.
thanks
tim
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