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Date:      Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:46:37 -0600
From:      Eric Kjeldergaard <kjelderg@gmail.com>
To:        Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Start gnome's gdm at once
Message-ID:  <d9175cad04111820462ae3f7de@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20041119052217.H7991@pukruppa.net>
References:  <419D6DE2.5060508@hillsdale.edu> <20041119052217.H7991@pukruppa.net>

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> > How do you start gnome's at once, without going to the command prompt and
> > doing 'gdm'?
> # cd /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d
> # mv gdm.sh.sample gdm.sh

Another alternative to this would be to edit /etc/ttys with a line like this:

ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"   xterm off secure

Except that you'll need to set the path (xdm's path) to gdm's path.

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