Re: Opening window over login screen

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Allan Schaffer (allan++at++southpark.engr.sgi.com)
Wed, 14 Jul 1999 11:40:11 -0700 (PDT)

On Jul 14, 2:32pm, Chris Elliott wrote:
> Using OpenGL, IRIS GL and GVS we bring up 2D & 3D graphics over the
> login screens on many SGIs. A performer application I wrote freezes
> when I try to do this. It works fine if someone logs in to the machine,
> but we don't want to have to do this. Any hints on how to make this
> work?

This is a pretty important security feature but it can be disabled if
you're in a secure environment. Edit /usr/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config,
look for:

DisplayManager*grabServer: True

Change it to False, and restart xdm:

# (/usr/gfx/stopgfx; sleep 1; killall -HUP xdm; sleep 1; /usr/gfx/startgfx) &

Allan

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