From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 2 19:24: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from logisticsoftware.co.nz (logisticsoftware.co.nz [202.37.163.1]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B4E64287 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 19:23:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz (jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz [10.1.3.1]) by logisticsoftware.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA27268; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 16:23:56 +1300 (NZDT) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA27447; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 16:23:55 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 16:23:55 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: R Joseph Wright Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: starting X when booting Message-ID: <20000203162355.B27273@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz> References: <3898F198.C9397F43@nwlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3898F198.C9397F43@nwlink.com>; from rjoseph@nwlink.com on Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 07:10:16PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 07:10:16PM -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: > I know this has been covered before, but my search of the archives > proved futile. How can I get X windows to start automatically when I > boot? I'm currently using kde 1.1.2. Look at /etc/ttys, and change the line that has "xdm" so that the status reads "on". Next time you reboot or 'kill -HUP 1', it will start up xdm. Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "A person should be able to do a small bit of everything, specialisation is for insects" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message