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From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Console output on a SUN 3/50 running xdm
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Date: 5 Dec 88 14:30:20 GMT
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> Is there some way one can have console output appear in some sort of 
> "console window" under X11R3 started up with xdm?

Have your session script start an xterm with -C.  Console output will still
go to the screen when xdm has its login prompting window up, but you can 
get rid of that hitting ^C to restart the window.