Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:46:25 +0000 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: Programmer In Training <pit@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg, xdm, desktop env Message-ID: <20100305144625.GA43010@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4B9048F9.1060907@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> References: <ed7803cf1003040030sca49614i6c4a87b479f3aa95@mail.gmail.com> <20100305002520.c06d7d20.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1003041638030.46217@wonkity.com> <4B9048F9.1060907@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us>
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On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 05:57:45PM -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: > > On 03/04/10 17:43, Warren Block wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Polytropon wrote: > <snip> > >> As far as I know, earlier X installations came with the > >> tab window manager - twm. This doesn't seem to be the case > >> anymore. > > > > twm is still enabled by default as part of the x11/xorg-apps port. > > I can confirm that, and I too have problems with XDM despite having > 'exec wmaker' in my .xinitrc in my home directory (sometimes XDM will > kick me out to the login, sometimes it will just take me to a blank > session wherein I can do nothing). I'd like to use XDM and have it start > on boot so I'm interested in the outcome of this. If you read the manpage for xdm(1) you will see that the script that is run on login is ~/.xsession Try putting "exec wmaker" in there. To run xdm from boot, you have to edit /etc/ttys and then: # kill -HUP 1 Look at this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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