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Jose Monteiro wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have two questions:
> 
> 1 - My .xinitrc includes fvwm, so, when I startx, everithing goes as I
> configured.
> 
> But if I run xdm and try to login, I always get twm and my .xinitrc is
> ignored. How can I fix this?

xdm uses .xsession, not .xinitrc. See the man page for xdm.

> 
> 2 - When i kill xdm with SIGTERM, the server stops but i loose the
> console. I can't even get a getty login prompt in the console, but if
> i run startx remotely, the server and the Window manager both start
> perfectly. why?
> 

How do you run xdm? Did you tell it what virtual terminal to use? Why do
you want to kill it?

> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Jose
> 
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