From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 5 12:22:12 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 5 12:22:09 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D46437B400 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 12:22:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from battlezone.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@battlezone.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.140]) by donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id PAA22044; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 15:22:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by battlezone.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id PAA20315; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 15:22:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 15:22:07 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@battlezone.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: Allan Dib Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting straight into X GUI In-Reply-To: <3A2CA5A0.3070903@edumail.vic.gov.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Allan Dib wrote: > This is probably very basic, but I have not done it before on FreeBSD. > How do I get my box to boot startight to the X/KDE GUI rather than using > the usual startx command. On linux this was done by modifying runlevels > but I beleive it's different on BSD boxes..... It depends on your shell. I use FreeBSD csh so if I put startx at the end of my .login file it will execute upon logging in and start X automatically. I personally can't stand that, so I made an alias from x to startx. Then all I type is x if I choose to run it instead of using the console. For you we would have to know what shell you use. Or you could read the manpage for your shell to discover for yourself. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message