From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 8:25:30 2002 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 E277637B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:25:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web13501.mail.yahoo.com (web13501.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9C48943E42 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:25:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thief_grr@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20021017152528.308.qmail@web13501.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.58.186.179] by web13501.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:25:27 PDT Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:25:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Thanos Tsouanas Subject: Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG had similar problems... if you dont mind starting your wmanager manually, without using xdm or similar programs, try adding sth like this to your /etc/ttys files... comment out the line that starts xdm -nodaemon and add a similar one to start the XFree86 sth like ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86" xterm on secure this shud result in X starting every time you start your system with the X-mouse screen and the pixel-chessboard background. make a small script to start your wmanager in your home dir #!/bin/sh /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker -display :0 (thats for me, i use windowmaker, add there what you wud normally add to .xinitrc or .xsession) chmod +x filename_to_start_window_manager shud work... __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message