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From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
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On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:10:44 -0500
Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> wrote:

> I can type starx or gdm after logging in as root, but that's not what I 
> want.

Not sure if it is the same as with gdm, but gdm installs an rc file
in /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm

gdm_enable="YES" needs to be added to rc.conf.

you may want to check whether pkg_info -L kdm* | grep rc

shows anything useful....

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