From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 13 19:19:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B135537B400 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 19:19:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from goose.mail.pas.earthlink.net (goose.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CE8443E86 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 19:19:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jud@myrealbox.com) Received: from dialup-209.246.211.246.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([209.246.211.246] helo=sparky) by goose.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17ekmF-0007QW-00; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 16:08:39 -0700 From: Jud To: Kenneth Culver , Parker Brown Cc: BSDQuestions Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 19:09:07 -0400 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <3D5988B7.CEADF5FE@charter.net> Message-Id: <1WA8U73TO6ZNH651WGFOIHBQNKQNMJ.3d599193@sparky> Subject: Re: Display Managers and X11 4 (ala FreeBSD 4.6) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Opera 6.04 build 1135 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 8/13/2002 6:31:19 PM, Parker Brown wrote: >Kenneth Culver wrote: > >> > gdm (Gnome) is not so bad only in that it returns statements that imply >> > that I must find a list somewhere to edit by some sort of rules. >> > >> > I guess I don't understand *dm, which I *think* is somehow new with X11 >> > 4. >> > >> > Got any hints? I really want to try both KDE (which is working, but >> > I've got to figure out how to modify it to my tastes) and gnome. >> > >> the display managers have been around for a LOOONG time. anyway, there is >> documentation for all of the display managers sitting around on the web, >> just search for it. It's not really hard to set these things up. >> >> Ken >I certainly do not intend to refute you, Kenneth, but I've been a subscriber >since 2.1.5, and I've never (prior to 4.6) seen documention that said >*something* to the effect that, as opposed to X11 3, you now have to install >a "wrapper" if you want to startx X11 with startx rather than with xdm. >There has been a change somehow. I just don't recall encountering the name >xdm before. > >-- >Pb Umm, Parker - you install wrapper (/usr/ports/x11/wrapper) if you want to startx as a user other than root and don't want to have to fool with permissions, security, etc., to do it. Every time I've installed XFree from ports I've gotten a message to that effect. (I started with 4.1 or 4.2, so that would be what, about 2 years?) Xdm (X display manager?) is a graphical login. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message