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  I am running Slackware 1.2 and Xfree86.

  I am running xdm. It works just fine. I would like to make the
console screen look better than the default. I modified the Xresources
file in the /usr/X11/lib/X11/xdm directory. I also checked that the
xdm-config file refers to the Xresources file for its resources.

 I ran xdm with the default options as well as explicitly specifying
the config file to load up. Neither of the two helped to change the
console login screen of xdm.

 I appreciate any help I can get from the experienced ones.
 Thank you,

  srini

:->   I am running Slackware 1.2 and Xfree86.

:->   I am running xdm. It works just fine. I would like to make the
:-> console screen look better than the default. I modified the Xresources
:-> file in the /usr/X11/lib/X11/xdm directory. I also checked that the
:-> xdm-config file refers to the Xresources file for its resources.

:->  I ran xdm with the default options as well as explicitly specifying
:-> the config file to load up. Neither of the two helped to change the
:-> console login screen of xdm.

:->  I appreciate any help I can get from the experienced ones.
:->  Thank you,

:->   srini

How about in .xsession, use xrdb -merge to load the resources?

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    >   I am running Slackware 1.2 and Xfree86.

    > console screen look better than the default. I modified the
    > Xresources file in the /usr/X11/lib/X11/xdm directory. I also
    > checked that the xdm-config file refers to the Xresources file
    > for its resources.

    >  I ran xdm with the default options as well as explicitly
    > specifying the config file to load up. Neither of the two helped
    > to change the console login screen of xdm.

I had similar problems... As far as I was able to determine from error
logs, xdm was trying to invoke 'xrdb' with a flag causing it to use
the C preprocessor while parsing the resources file.  Xrdb was trying
to execute it as '/bin/cpp'.  At least in my slackware distribution,
'cpp' was only found down in some architecture-specific subdirectory
of gcc, not in the /bin directory.  This caused xrdb to fail, so the
entire resources file was ignored.

Anyway, I'm certain this is not the most elegant solution, but I
solved the problem by putting a symbolic link to cpp in the /bin
directory.  Everything has worked fine since then.

Hope this helps.
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