gdm hiding .Xdefaults with ctwm

[Malcolm Kay]

Hmm, no ideas on offer. I have also had no success on Google.
It looks like I'll have to stop wasting time and 
sacrifice easy access to gnome and kde.

No way would I sacrifice ctwm or a respectible xterm for these.

And anyway xdm has a much better login screen with separate text boxes 
for user and password. And of course gdm follows MS Windows in going half
way to revealing the password by indicating the number of characters.

Regards,
Malcolm

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:59 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I'm having some difficulty with xterm under ctwm or fvwm
> not honouring the resources in .Xdefaults.
> 
> This only occurs when X is started by gdm; with gnome,
> kde or xfce4 the xterm resources in .Xdefaults are honoured
> but not when ctwm or fvwm sessions are selected.
> 
> The system is FC6.
> 
> The sessions files for ctwm and fvwm in  /usr/share/xsessions/
> are:
> ctwm.desktop ->
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Name=CTWM
> Comment=ICCCM-compliant multiple virtual desktop window manager
> Exec=ctwm
> 
> and fvwm.desktop ->
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Name=FVWM
> Comment=ICCCM-compliant multiple virtual desktop window manager
> Exec=fvwm
> Terminal=False
> 
> [Window Manager]
> SessionManaged=true
> 
> When I replace gdm with the standard X-windows display manager xdm
> the problem disappears. But of course the choice of sessions
> as managed by gdm also disappears. The change of display manager 
> is implemented with /etc/initscript ->
> 
> if [ $RUNLEVEL -eq  5 ]
> then
>   DISPLAYMANAGER=XDM
>   export DISPLAYMANAGER
> else
>   DISPLAYMANAGER=
> fi
> eval exec "$4"
> 
> 
> Does anyone know how to stop gdm hiding .Xdefaults from ctwm of fvwm.
> 
> Any comments or ideas would be appreciated
> 
> Thanks
> Malcolm Kay
>