Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 11:21:41 +0100 (BST) From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> To: John Talton <jta001@coes.LaTech.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XDM Message-ID: <199807021021.LAA18153@hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <102986278@toto.iv>
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John Talton said: >I was wandering two things. > 1) Why does xdm use totally differant start scrips than startx Not sure what you mean. You can use the same same .xsession/.xinitrc for both xdm and xinit logins. Startx is just a wrapper around xinit, whereas xdm is a 'display manager' and can do many other cool things, like driving X terminals for you. > 2) How do I get a screen saver in XDM so it doesnt burn a hole in > my monitor (running several computers in lab seting, screens > are on all the time - this is a real problem) All of the X servers have a bunch of options for setting up the screen saver. IIRC, -s <something> will set the saver timeout to <something>, and there is probably an option to have it stick the monitor in power-saving mode. You would add these to the appropriate line in your Xservers file. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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