From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 4 12:39:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A57516A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 12:39:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from magidesign.com (w178.z064001046.atl-ga.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.46.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0189B43F3F for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 12:39:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from payne@magidesign.com) Received: from magidesign.com ([64.25.7.78])hB4KP3P4021281; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:25:11 -0500 Message-ID: <3FCF9B8B.4070001@magidesign.com> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 15:39:39 -0500 From: Payne User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030912 Thunderbird/0.3a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Howse References: <3FCF85D5.6060705@magidesign.com> <200312041416.05686.chowse@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <200312041416.05686.chowse@charter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Xdm/Kdm/Gmd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:39:59 -0000 Charles Howse wrote: >On Thursday 04 December 2003 01:07 pm, Payne wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>Thanks for the help early, I am wanting to have either xdm/kdm/gdm to >>start once my system it up, how can I do this? Also which is best? >> >> > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html > >This will detail the process for you. >As to which is best, that's only valid if you are running Gnome AND KDE. >I'm not familiar with gdm, but kdm is bundled w/ KDE, and xdm is bundled w/ >XFree86. > > > Thanks, I have printed out the mannual so I will take a look at. GMD = Gnome, I am old linux guy and I like kdm, I was hoping there was a wdm port, it suppose to be the best. Oh well. Payne