From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 2 7:22:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from math.udel.edu (math.udel.edu [128.175.16.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 747A337BC8B for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 07:22:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from schwenk@math.udel.edu) Received: from math.udel.edu (sisyphus.math.udel.edu [128.175.16.167]) by math.udel.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA06556; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:22:09 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38BE8721.95D0C754@math.udel.edu> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 10:22:09 -0500 From: Peter Schwenk Organization: University of Delaware X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en, fr, de, ko MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Abdemoulaie Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: X doesnt startup on boot References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you want a graphical login screen, investigate the 'xdm' or 'kdm' programs. Your /etc/ttys file already has a (disabled) line for starting up xdm at boot. Just change the 'off' to 'on' and send the init process a SIGHUP using the kill program to have it re-read the /etc/ttys file. A recent edition of daemonnews had an article on customizing xdm that is good to read. You also need an executable .xsession script in every user's account. This script starts up your window manager for you. If you don't have one, you should copy the default from /usr/share/skel. I suggest getting xdm working before tackling kdm. kdm has some nice features, like a menu for shutting down the system (good for a home environment, only) and backgrounds (see kdmdesktop for info on customization). David Abdemoulaie wrote: > How do I get X windows to start up on boot? I am using FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE, > with XFree86 3.3.6 with KDE. During install I chose the option to make KDE > my default window manager. However I can't get it to start on boot. It just > goes to a regular terminal screen where I have to manually login and type > startx to get it running. Any help would be appreciated > > ----------------- > David Abdemoulaie > DAcash18@vt.edu > ICQ - 21360590 > > __________________________________________ > NetZero - Defenders of the Free World > Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at > http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- PETER SCHWENK | Campus IT Associate 3 Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware schwenk@math.udel.edu | (302)831-0437 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message