From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 1 16: 9:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from scrabble.freeuk.net (scrabble.freeuk.net [212.126.144.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BC311583B for ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 16:09:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@cream.org) Received: from [212.126.148.21] (helo=cream.org) by scrabble.freeuk.net with esmtp (Exim 2.11 #1) id 10oxea-0000fE-00; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 23:09:05 +0000 Content-Length: 562 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199906011605.JAA09116@peewee.cdrom.com> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 00:06:24 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Boothman To: Jordan Hubbard Subject: Re: FreeBSD & X Cc: chris@calldei.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Phil Regnauld Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 01-Jun-99 Jordan Hubbard wrote: > xdm has very little to do with selecting the desktop look-and-feel, > unfortunately. :) :) I was referring to the fact that it gets a GUI in front of the desktop user on startup. And that might perhaps help FreeBSD make a bigger impact on the desktop OS market. It could be an option on installation..... Also xbanner allows customisation of the xdm login box, so that we could give it a more FreeBSD-centric look. (ie a few pictures of chuck chucked around) --- Andrew Boothman http://sour.cream.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message