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Date:      Tue, 26 Aug 1997 20:26:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Mike Jeays <jeays@statcan.ca>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The Chooser
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970826202545.4255S-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970826064545.29380A-100000@austral>

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On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Mike Jeays wrote:

> Thanks to another subscriber, I now have xdm working properly,
> except that I cannot make the chooser work.  I know that there
> are at least two other machines visible on our internal network,
> but all I get is the standard login screen from xdm for my own
> machine.  I think I have failed to understand something quite
> basic, and would appreciate any tips.  I have tried several
> options in Xservers and Xaccess, but they don't seem to make
> any difference.

The xdm Chooser is pretty, well choosy :)

The way to go is to run the X server with the -indirect flag, or something
like that.  Poke around the questions mail archives, it was asked &
answered some time ago.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail    | Death to Cyberpromo




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