Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:20:34 -0600 From: Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net> To: Payne <payne@magidesign.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Xdm/Kdm/Gmd Message-ID: <200312041520.34289.chowse@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <3FCF9B8B.4070001@magidesign.com> References: <3FCF85D5.6060705@magidesign.com> <200312041416.05686.chowse@charter.net> <3FCF9B8B.4070001@magidesign.com>
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On Thursday 04 December 2003 02:39 pm, Payne wrote: > 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. [charles@moe /usr/ports]$ make search key=wdm [snip] Port: wdm-1.25_1 Path: /usr/ports/x11/wdm Info: WINGs Display Manager; an xdm replacement Maint: kris@FreeBSD.org Index: x11 windowmaker B-deps: Hermes-1.3.3 XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_6 expat-1.95.6_1 fontconfig-2.2.90_3 freetype2-2.1.5_1 gettext-0.12.1 imake-4.3.0_1 jpeg-6b_1 libiconv-1.9.1_3 libungif-4.1.0b1_1 pkgconfig-0.15.0 png-1.2.5_2 tiff-3.6.0 windowmaker-0.80.2_1 wmicons-1.0 R-deps: Hermes-1.3.3 XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_6 expat-1.95.6_1 fontconfig-2.2.90_3 freetype2-2.1.5_1 gettext-0.12.1 imake-4.3.0_1 jpeg-6b_1 libiconv-1.9.1_3 libungif-4.1.0b1_1 pkgconfig-0.15.0 png-1.2.5_2 tiff-3.6.0 windowmaker-0.80.2_1 wmicons-1.0 -- Thanks, Charles http://howse.homeunix.net:8080 Random Murphy's Law: If you buy bananas or avocados before they are ripe, there won't be any left by the time they are ripe. If you buy them ripe, they rot before they are eaten.
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