From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 2 03:21:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA21961 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 03:21:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.88.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA21954 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 03:21:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk) Received: from brunos-sun.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.88.185]; by hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.5/S-4.0) with SMTP; id LAA18153; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 11:21:41 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 11:21:41 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199807021021.LAA18153@hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Received: locally by brunos-sun (SMI-8.6/QMW-client-3.2b); poster "scott"; id LAA11252; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 11:16:04 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: John Talton CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XDM In-Reply-To: <102986278@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 will set the saver timeout to , 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 | 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